Is it illegal???

[Dassell]

Is it illegal to submit a deed poll form and a fake ID to blizzard to get the name changed on a bought battle.net account. Do they check if the ID is fake or not? And can I get in trouble for submitting it?

[KuRIoS]

you are faking your own identity and official papers.. yeah, I would say it is illegal

[Dassell]

Ok. But if I submit them using a VPN am I likely to get caught?

[Wilbo007]

I don't think Blizzard is going to go to that extent to track down the fake id man that got his name changed on his battle net account. So no I don't think you'll get caught -- my opinion!

[Eryx]

You asked if it's illegal; and the answer to that is yes. If you get caught you can expect to get in a lot of trouble, like never being able to join police academy, military education, law scool, US visa, etc etc because you will have a criminal record.

If you get caught for it, and the chances you get caught, thats another story. Personally i wouldn't risk all that for a computer game!

[sed-]

Is it illegal to submit a deed poll form and a fake ID to blizzard to get the name changed on a bought battle.net account. Do they check if the ID is fake or not? And can I get in trouble for submitting it?

thats id theft so yes? lulz pls tell me your trolling

[esp3rae]

Yes its illegal, the last year ou the year before, a guy scammed Hydra and has deleted all teams rank one.

A guy went to jail for it.

[Christopher X]

My opinion comes from my experience in the stealth ebay/paypal community (people who use fake names for ebay and paypal); "creative" ID's and paperwork are common place and get caught all the time by paypal and the worst possible outcome there is resulting in someone loosing a stealth account.

We're talking about virtual bank accounts, AVS CC's with a fake name, fake addresses, on and on. If they get locked they have to use 'creative' IDs to get unlocked... so on and so forth.

So lets be real, you don't risk legal prosecution for trying to get a name change on something your legally purchased (in the real world, not blizzard's ToS). If they do happen to discover they were 'creative' documents the worst they'll do is permanently close the account.

Overall though my advice would contact sell and see if you can get some legit documents. I don't know how good blizzard is at spotting fakes, but you risk losing the account all together if they do.

$0.02

Yes its illegal, the last year ou the year before, a guy scammed Hydra and has deleted all teams rank one.

A guy went to jail for it.

I actually looked up this story for kicks, but there was no punch line, nobody went to jail.

[nikkito]

fairly sad thing to do

[Rumblefish]

Depends on the Photo ID used.

Passports, national ID cards, birth certificates, etc. can be checked and verified easily online.

Driver's licenses, on the other hand can't be.

Therefore, your best option would be to use a Driver's License for a Photo ID.

[Sklug]

Fake IDs are always illegal. Just because it's a consumer to business transaction and not you showing ID to a federal agency doesn't mean you can do it. There are obvious repercussions if you are found out.

Realistically, will you go to jail? No...

Realistically, could Blizz start getting pissed more and more about this stuff and decide to spend 5 min verifying and reporting the scame? Sure

Realistically, will anyone spend the resources on tracking you down if you VPN? Probably not...

Still, at the end of the day... YOU NEVER KNOW. You may not go to jail over a crime like this, but if it ever came back to you it would be on your record FOREVER! Remember that... FOREVER. Forever when you fill out a job application and they ask "have you ever committed a crime other than a traffic ticket?" and you have to answer and explain... because a background check will show it... And while you may think it's petty, the big thing is that it is a DISHONEST crime. These put more red flags whether I would hire the person than say someone who went to jail for 30 days for smoking too much pot or something. It red flags your character.

I know you probably want to do this because you spent cash and bought an account and probably want some details changed on the account, but I am saying, big picture of life, even though LOW chance of anything happening to you... it's not worth it. Also, if this is for nefarious reasons and you wish to do some damage to another's account then yes, then when the account owner finds out and gets pissed, they will look and report you. It has happened.

[Sklug]

I actually looked up this story for kicks, but there was no punch line, nobody went to jail.

Yes its illegal, the last year ou the year before, a guy scammed Hydra and has deleted all teams rank one.

A guy went to jail for it.

Actually, this Canadian dude may not have gone to jail, but you don't have to actually go to jail for something to be on your record. Canadian law essentially slapped him on the wrist and didn't put him in jail(which is prob appropriate imo), but he now has an arrest record which he now has to explain to every place he gets hired, FOREVER. That's a crappy thing to have to explain how you defrauded someone by using a fake ID... People don't seem to realize that police and arrest records aren't like your driving records which reset every 3-5 years for the insurance companies. They stay forever.