The Risks of Buying Gold and Power-Leveling Services (Real-Money Trading)

Buying gold with real money or handing over your account goes against Blizzard's terms of service, and because it happens outside the game, there is almost no way to be protected if something goes wrong.

Risks of buying gold

• Run-aways: the seller takes your payment and sends no gold, or only part of it.
• Reversals and penalties: gold that came from a hacked account can be taken back later, and the account that received it can be penalized.
• Exposed personal details: you hand over contact or payment details during the purchase.

Risks of power-leveling (giving up your account)

• The moment you hand over your login details, treat the account as no longer yours.
• Leveling with botting programs can get the account penalized.
• Gold and items may be stripped from the character, or the account resold.

If you see gold farmers or bots

Report bots that run the same route over and over, and gold selling ads, in game. For characters you keep seeing, you can post a report under "Gold selling or botting" so other players know to avoid them.