Reporting gold-sellers a good thing to do?

Every now and then I'll report a gold-selling spambot, by using /report ingame, but after all these recent hacking of accounts, I'm wondering if I am not royally screwing someone's account because a hacker was able to access it for some time, and started to use it to advertise gold.

What if that user is able to get that account back, would that user get banned for selling gold ingame?

Or is a hacked account considered lost to that player after a hacker got access to it?

I'm a bit hesitant about reporting people at the moment, don't want to ruin any legitimate players account.

When I see them with random gibberish for names, I have no problems reporting.
That is if ya can catch em with their sneak attack spamming and district hopping

impossible to know. at least reporting will prevent the hacker from taking advantage of the stolen person's account

I think that support would be able to determine the date of your report, the dates the account was hacked/returned. Then make the proper determination and not ban them for spamming.

Report away and let support sort em out. Gold sellers suck as much as botters

You can report someone not with only the /report command. You can also make a screenshot of the goldseller. Then you can mail it to Arenanet's Support. With the time when the goldseller was there. What place, what district etc. Then you have evrything. And if it is alright you get a mail back that his account is Sunspended

ANet doesn't care anyway.

Why the hell would you report goldsellers anyway?

They don't hurt you, why hurt them?

They paid for the account, and are just trying to make an honest living.

It's a friggin' recession, man. Lay off.

God.

qfgoldseller

The way I see it, is that the faster the account is locked, the faster the real owner can get their account back.

They can see from what IP the account was accessed from, so if it's from china....


They get the idea.

They're part of the reason GW economy isn't so great.

I LOL'd! You do not make an "honest" living by hacking other people's accounts and stripping them of anything worth more than 10g.

Why are you trying to stir $hit up?

QFT!

Most MMO game servers I've been on do not have an affective method of stopping spammer bots. I too think they are annoying as hell, but I don't think much will be done from the /report. It's just something we will have to deal with, I feel it was much better when ebay let you sell virtual items. The demand was way down for hacking businesses from overseas gold. Virtual worlds will never be the same as they once were ca. 2002-03.

This

If it's a stolen account, it will be blocked and the original owner will be able to reclaim it by sending a support ticket.

I also LOL'd hard IRL, hax0rs should get a real j0b.

Most don't... I mean I played EQ2 (15/mo) for about two years and got spammed EVERY day by gold sellers through whisper...but heres GW, which I;'ve been playing longer and never got a gold selling spam, ever..well maybe ONE or two..but thats still about 900,000 less PM's than I got on EQ2..

I still think Anet does better on the spam than most others.

to be honest gold sellers piss me off more then botters because botters from what i know dont take accounts and botters you kno speed up the economy around events from farming/selling goods which in turn must go to something the person who was botting wanted no way its just with a NPC so there is some player benefit with them but gold sellers just suck

EDIT: i forgot to say this before but this wintersday anet has decided to ban all the bots now im not saying thats horrible of anet because the botters are breaking the rules yet you can stand in ToB and probably get 20 gold sellers in an hour tell me how thats fair gold sellers do more damage then the botters because botter money goes somewere usually

Sillier commentary you just won't see.

If this isn't sarcastic, it is plain stupid.

not true at all.........its at the bottom of the list why the economy is bad.

If someone wants to piss away REAL LIFE money to buy GAME MONEY, they have to much REAL LIFE money and need to mail me some.

If someone wants to pisss away there dollars buying Plat so what....... I like me real money to much, buying the game was bad enough

Taking a SS and reporting via web support is so much more satisfying than /report. With the web support you get a response that states that the account was suspended.

In fact just today someone I had already reported for scamming aion wing codes was at it again. The second suspension was just beautiful.

GTFO scammers.