DO NOT BUY RaF Anymore! Blizzard found and banning the Method!

[Takri]

For almost a year now on 2 accounts I've bought months with RaF for gold, everything went fine and there was never a problem on both accounts till today I see my both account's are suspended for unknown time + all the RaF months are gone and I've never said ANYTHING or reported or anything that may cause me into problem with it, not talk in game, I want to make it clear, I am not stupid + the gold trade always been done via AH.

Thats the email I've got:

Greetings,

After our investigation regarding fraudulent payments on recently created Recruit a Friend accounts, several such World of Warcraft accounts were found linked to your account ******. As a result, the game time was removed, leading us into also removing any gains from your account that were awarded based on that game time.

This includes 12 months of game time that was added due to the Recruit a Friend bonuses, as well the removal of the mount and achievement from your character ******** at [Server].

We regret to take this action, but due to the false payments, are left with no choice but remove the links and any rewards gained. Hopefully you'll have no such problems in the future with the Recruit a Friend service.

Also, we regret to inform you that your account ****** is not eligible for the WoW Annual Pass, as a result, for any of the eligible actions. This is a legal limitation which we cannot bypass.


Regards,
Game Master ******/******.
Blizzard Entertainment Europe

I've bought my months from "Pr3cious" and "Lethaldiamond" which I havnt seen online recently the reason I moved to Pr3cious, I've bolded some of the line such as "Falsh Payment" so I guess those seller's that god knows how they make profit from this auction may have hack the system and Blizzard found out?Right now I've lost 210k gold total and I am very depressed so I've posted that here so you all be carefull, I guess the mathod not working anymore and better pay more gold for game card's.
To sum up:
1) I havn't talked about it in game or even to friends no body knew about it except me.
2) There was no problem till today.
3) I've lost 210k gold and all trade's made via the in game Auction House.
4) I used the RaF method.
5) I am still suspended and only god knows when I will be released.
6) Happened on 2 different account's with 2 different mails, both are not in the same battlenet account and not sharing the same information.
7) Last time I've bought months was 2 days ago with 12 RaF each.
8 ) Very notable thing that may result in this was the "Falsh Payment" in Blizzard mail.
9) I had bad luck or blizzard decided to counter all of who is using this mathod? Is it worth the risk? For you to decide.
10) Maybe I've bought too many month's at once? for all those who wants the free diablo III and thein game mount then I suggest you that its really not the method to do so.
I hope my English is not too bad and thank you for reading it!
Edit: Spelling issues

[Flintis]

Could you post a screenshot of that mail, as I find it very unlikely that they would point out the whole annual pass thingy in a suspension mail.

[Saberdog]

Thanks for the warning about this. I wonder if it has anything to do with how much time was purchased? Hopefully, if anyone else has this issue they'll post the email from Blizz.

Thanks again.

Saber

[Auctionmon]

Mate you most probably just got caught trading those 210k gold you claim you did at once and a blizzard GM saw that you bought those gametime and removed them, or it might've been an auto-ban for not being careful while trading gold.

I'm quite certain of this because i've been buying from that seller you accuse of "Scamming" or whatever for a good 4-6 months now, for all my accounts (all 15 bot accounts and main) and all the RL friends i have who bought from this seller, and you're the first i've ever seen who had such troubles with it, your own carelessness is probably what got you banned, no offense.

Maybe you should spend some time reading a few guides on how to trade gold safely in these forums, would go long ways to prevent such losses.

Peace.

[smrdlja]

2 weeks ago, I grabbed RAF for my 3 accounts, like I was doing for couple months. I payed with gold from 4th account.

All 4 accounts were banned. I managed to restore only 1 of those.

[Saberdog]

2 weeks ago, I grabbed RAF for my 3 accounts, like I was doing for couple months. I payed with gold from 4th account.

All 4 accounts were banned. I managed to restore only 1 of those.

If you don't mind me asking, how much gold was transferred and how many months total did you buy?

I'm curious if there's any coorelation to the amount of gold that's traded and game time that's added. Probably not but I'm still curious non the less.

Saber

[phantom325]

Thanks for the heads up, but like one of the above posters said, could you post a screenshot of the e-mail?

[Kaoss]

7) Last time I've bought months was 2 days ago with 12 RaF each.

is it possible that 12 months each as Raf rang some alarm at Blizzard

[smrdlja]

If you don't mind me asking, how much gold was transferred and how many months total did you buy?

I'm curious if there's any coorelation to the amount of gold that's traded and game time that's added. Probably not but I'm still curious non the less.

Saber

21k for 3 months.

[Angelus234]

A pic from the e-mail would be appreciated.

[Freefall552]

That doesn't look like a mail from blizzard. No other proof?

[Johnnyp]

it would be nice if u provide screenshot of email.

[Dr. Doom]

what johnnyp said

[Cookie799]

Everyone stop RAF then ????

[jeremie_bs]

thats for the heads up ill stop buying raf