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Gold farming might be something poor countries look forward to in helping them, but in the US, the FBI looks at it as fraud. The FBI recently raided the apartment of two University of Michigan undergraduates, seizing laptop computers, hard drives, videogame systems, credit cards, a cell phone, paperwork and other computer equipment.

The two students were not arrested, however, they claim to be innocent, and not even play WoW (World of Warcraft.) “They thought we were involved in some kind of fraud,” one of the students told AnnArbor.com, “I’m pretty sure they have the wrong people, but they took all my stuff.”

The FBI states that they raided the apartment in order to collect evidence that one of the students was indeed creating fraudulent accounts in order to sell farmed gold. They are also gathering documents from various online sites such as gameusd.com (a Chinese gold farming site) eBay, PayPal, and the United Services Automobile Association, which offers banking services.

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This is really serious stuff! Thanks for sharing.


eek. i hope this will be resolved soon >_<;


oi hope things will be resolved at once :D


this is a serious case.. hope things will fine soon! thx for sharing!


godammit
can’t believe ppl are abusing the fact that you can make money from WoW

but then uni students are poor...soo....oh and they’re retarded like me ...>> so....

thanks for sharing :D!


o__o Gosh, this sounds like some serious stuff for a game. 


Framed gold?
Well, if they weren’t the ones, that’d certainly be a hassle of them.
Hope it turns out well.
thanks for sharing!



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