This is directly from the World of Warcraft TOS:
This is one term of the TOS that can be used against Blizzard. Let me explain."Blizzard Entertainment does not recognize the transfer of Accounts, and any authorized transfer of the World of Warcraft software (as set forth on the worldofwarcraft.com web site) will result in the permanent deletion of the Account attached to that software. You may not offer any Account for sale or trade, and any such offer is a violation of this Agreement and may result in suspension or termination of the Account."
If you steal some ones account, disenchant their stuff, and send all their gold, shards and BOE's to your account, which you "traded" them, then proceeded to steal your account back, Blizzard says right in its TOS:
So if they don't recognize the trading of accounts, then what would it be considered?"Blizzard Entertainment does not recognize the transfer of Accounts"
Simple... account sharing.
So heres how it works:"You may not share the Account with anyone, except that if you are a parent or guardian, you may permit one (1) minor child to use the Account when not in use by you. You are liable for all uses of the Account."
- You say in general chat you want to trade your account with someone. This part is your job, I'm not going to give away a bunch of methods. Your best bet is to act inteligent (I.E. Begin all your messages with capitals and not using 1337 $p34k or Internet slang)
- You're going to get tells from people accusing you of scamming, you might even get a scammer who is trying to scam you, don't give up.
- You find someone who is interested. Proceed to trade accounts with them. I would suggest giving them the wrong password and proceeding to change their password as fast as you can.
- Disenchant their gear, steal their gold and any BOE's they have. Don't be mean and destroy all the stuff you can't take. Don't delete their characters either.
- It takes about 4 minutes to recover a lost password. This is how much time you should allocate for yourself to do this.
- They log back on, find everything is missing. Don't log on the character you scammed them with, you'll get some nasty tells and be inclined to talk back. This won't help your cause.
Congratulations, you are a few hundred gold richer.
Theres a beauty behind this scam though.
There, right from the TOS. They shared their account, they got burned. You win. IF YOU BREAK ANY OTHER TERMS OF THE TOS WHILE DOING THIS YOU COULD GET BANNED (Trash talking, insults, etc.)"You are liable for all uses of the Account."
This is pretty much unbannable. Blizzard would be treading on thin ice legally if they broke their own TOS. Personally, I've gotten away with it a few times without even a GM whisper.
Enjoy.
P.S. This is probably one of the last topics I am going to make. I recently quit the game and just wanted to share this with you guys.