Forum progress and trust 3 lost?

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@Dumbeldorf-stormrage

This actually happened to me as well but it was under different circumstances; I had deleted this toon I’m posting on and had met all the requirements for the forums but I deleted this toon on my realm (My Mistake) and someone else created a toon on the same realm with the name I had deleted and it gave them all of my forum progress.

Interesting. I explained before on this forum that it is tied to character name-server here:

If I Race-Change, will I lose my Trust Levels?

I plan on Race-Changing this character to a Zandalari and I was looking forward to posting on my Zandalari. But I heard that if I race-change this character I will lose my Trust Levels, is this true?

But wasn’t sure if any account identifiers also played a part. If someone else’s account can get your stats by making a character with the same name, then it must not be tied to an account at all. I wonder how forum account actions work for preventing trust 3 then, if any account can claim forum stats just by making a character with that name.