Re: I purchased a service from the online site peons4hire.com. They stole $240 USD from me and several hundreds of dollars of virtual goods.


"Bruce Grubb" <bgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:bgrubb-E5B4DB.04555121052007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <4650920b$0$8927$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"kelps" <worldyetiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Bruce Grubb" <bgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:bgrubb-65F6F0.11134220052007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <46502cc1$0$8949$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "kelps" <worldyetiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "Bruce L Grubb" <bgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1179483001.915448.152300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > The original post said "I purchased a service from the online site
>> > peons4hire.com. They stole $240 USD from me and several hundreds of
>> > dollars of virtual goods. "
>> >
>> > Please note the "several hundreds of dollars of virtual goods" part.
>> > Since by the TOS these virtual goods are Blizzard's how can the be
>> > worth anything? The fact of the matter is that he would have gotten
>> > burned anyhow as Blizzard DOES shut these accounts down (it does >> > take
>> > them awhile to hide how they know).
>> >
>> > In short he was an idiot for voilating the TOS in the first place.
>> > End of story.
>>
>>
>> Blizzard is violating their own TOS by letting gold spammers spam. In
>> ten
>> minutes time today I was spammed 5 times.
>
> Considering that you have names that look like eye test charts and > people
> likely just ignoring them I would hardly blame Blizzard. In fact you
> really look the spamming started just after what would be in the 2.1 > patch
> came out. This is because one of the main features (and not in the > public
> notes) in 2.1.0 is a way to help stomp on the spammers like a Tauren
> <http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/11/spam-prevention-in-patch-2-1/>
>
>> It's Blizzard that is too blame. If the most high tech game on the
>> planet
>> can't stop gold spamming in their chat, then they aren't even trying.
>
> Read about the patch 2.1.0 and tell me again they are not even trying.
>
>> The patch isn't going to even put a dent in the spamming.
>
> How do you know this? Are you on a test realm? What are the flaws > with
> the system Blizzard is providing us in the wild?
>
>> Its a spam emergency
>> and Blizzard just makes excuses.
>
> Actually it is a last gasp by a bunch of spammers running scared. They
> likely have a good idea of how this is going to hurt them and are going
> full blast before the gate comes down.
>
>> If they aren't in on the scam, they are
>> sure trying to look like they are. They claim they want us to report >> the
>> spammers. What a joke.
>
> Considering the spammers are likely using trial accounts with one shot
> characters who spam everybody on the server and then are promptly > deleted
> the problems blizzard is having in nailing them down is obvious.

Blizzard has denied repeatedly that the spamming is coming from trial
accounts. They are hacking their way in.

Where are they claiming this? Provide a URL.

Because many fourm posts have been made saying, "Ban trial accounts, to stop the gold spam," Blizzard reps have answered repeatedly it is NOT trial accounts doing the vast majority of spam.


They might even be duping gold at this point. The gold price has dropped by
2/3's in past month.

The fixes in the patch only makes it possible to report them eaiser, and
make them have to post more separate sentences, but what good is that? They
spam, log off and are gone.

Didn't read the notes did you? The thing flags an ACCOUNT not just a toon.

You do not understand yet. Blizzard is of course already able to trace a "toon" to an account. That is not the issue.

This new "fix" will only create new issues when people start reporting other people for fun, or just to be nasty. And when the VOIP starts we shall get audible spam.



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