Yeah I was probably lowballing it a little. Some of the really large gold selling organizations (and they are organizations, run by organized crime cartels, this is a multi billion dollar per year business) do indeed have hundreds of thousands or more accounts ready to go at a moment’s notice.
And it doesn’t matter if they are active or not. They activate them with stolen credit cards. Sometimes stolen from their “customers”, sometimes stolen from people that don’t even play WOW via phishing or whatever.