This I write is not a complaint for money, scams happen in real life although IRL you can sue the aggressor; my problem is that Blizzard is complicit in all this, celebrates it, allows it and when you try to do something about it, nothing happens. The scammer has been promoting its boosting scam for two months after I raised a report. Some say it’s my fault for going to these scammers, I say if Blizzard allows it I can risk it and to be sure that Blizzard’s reporting system would support me, but there is none.
How do reports work on scammers? Seems profitable, someone might give it a try if it’s that easy.
If you see something bad, report it via right click. These boosters use low lvl ad bots that get recycled very fast. It’s a never ending battle as long as players purchase the stuff.
lol Darth, and I may have misunderstood too, maybe they were scammed. And if so then your points are correct:
The actions are unsupported, so the gold is removed, you don’t get it back. The scammers lose the gold and maybe get an action against their account. They usually have many accounts. They just continue. It’s a grey zone, be very careful with it. Personally, I’d avoid all boosting. If you must be max level, use the Store and purchase a boost from Blizz.
1stly, blizz is never going to tell you what actions are being given out or done either to you or the persons being reported either by you or others.
2nd scams in general are bad and an ongoing plague among other things, if youre dumb enough to risk your account by doing it and joining in, thats your own fault and whatever consequences come to you blizz likely wont overturn either if you attempt to appeal account actions.
as such using the forums for bypass or means of getting descriptions on account actions isnt the means either.
Appeal ticket only method route for that notion.
on other side of things, scammers should be reported on site either in chat frames or in LFG premade finder listings, you can report them for advertising/boosting/cheating etc based on whatever is being described in their ‘ads’.
I wanted a quick round to pvp on a potential main on TWW (I just wanted the pvp xmog, idc about pvp bc I’m bad). The guy took the gold from another character and left.
There is a scam ticket option, but since carries are not supported, you may not get your gold back. That does not mean the other party will not go unpunished.
Please, I understand you had a negative experience, don’t let that cloud your judgement in other posts and cause you to lose your posting privileges.
It really depends on the type of scam you are referring to. If we’re talking about an unscrupulous player taking advantage of an unsupported transaction, we do take those seriously when reported and verified.
There are a lot of player interactions that aren’t against policy, but we do not have systems that facilitate them, so they are considered unsupported. It isn’t recommended, but there isn’t anything inherently wrong with it, but there are no protections in place so it is entirely at your own risk.
If a scam is reported and can be verified the penalty can be fairly harsh. If a legitimate account, it usually isn’t an account closure immediately, but those climb up to extremely harsh penalties very quickly.
The right click report option isn’t available for scam reports, but you can put in a ticket. The direct link is in this support article.
