Keep Scammed Gold Even if blizz Takes it back

[slashviolence]

So recently i made about 3k gold in less than Honorable methods, i moved at over accounts and chars with it finally resting in my bank toon,, yesterday i received an email from Blizz telling me that 3156g was removed from my bank toon due to scamming blah blah blah, how ever just prior to logging i sent all but 300g to another char i was leveling, when i logged on my bank toon i saw that there was no gold whatsoever there, so thats 300g gone,,

but when i logged onto the other char (that i sent the gold to),, there was my gold in the mailbox, as i had not received the mail yet prior to getting the e-mail from blizzard, totaling 2700 or so, now i dont know if this is common knowlege or a random fail by blizz but it seems that coz it was stuck in the mail box it wasnt removed even tho the emial i got said it was,,

unfortunately this isn't something i can easily replicate nor want to,, but i thought id share to all just for you to keep in the back of your mind,

let me know if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing happening

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[j2tb]

You're a genius.

+ Rep.

[lacey639]

OR JUST SPEND IT AS SOON AS YOU GET IT

[Strichnine]

cool, but I didn't know that GMS could recall anyone's gold. I mean, how can they know it's scammed? Ppl could just fake a scamming report with that metod :S

[Inderve]

They probably thought the scammed gold was from the character that got the 2700g.


Also, Muskeljulle. They use logs to find out if the player was scammed or not. If there is not anything that shows that a player was scammed, they won't take any action.

[[ZauX]]

You're a genius.

+ Rep.

You're a genius.

+ Rep.

[edet123]

You're a genius.

+ Rep.

you are NOT a genius, since you cant rep you stupid leecher

[[Soul Eater]]

Even if you spend the gold on items and auctions and such, Blizzard can track those info too and if they want too, they just delete all those items and still are able to restore the gold for the scammed victim.

[gunmanbob]

You're a genius.

+ Rep.

dude ur a LEECHER!! u cant give rep!!

[undrgrnd59]

I'd bet that they can delete it from the mailbox too and you just got lucky. Might as well give it a try if you think thats gonna happen to you though.

[kepappi]

dude ur a LEECHER!! u cant give rep!!

look who is speaking :P well.. im a leecher myself too ^^

[patrux]

Guys, guys, everyone has been a leecher at some point.

[mahany25]

this is an amazing realization
+ rep x 2

[Flarian]

you are NOT a genius, since you cant rep you stupid leecher

he has a rep power of 1 he can rep

[vi6six]

It doesn't always work, I've had gold taken from the mail on low level alts, some I hadn't even logged in yet. I'm not sure how Blizzard tracks such things, but I guess some GMs are more diligent, and check anything not yet opened that was sent from the scamming account.