I did not know that selling/buying accounts are illegal in the forum. I thought people can do this. I mean obviously scamming is prohibited, but the mere act of selling an account is illegal? huh!
No, buying and selling accounts is not (unfortunately) prohibited as such, although it is very frowned upon and often leads to collateral consequences, the main on being that, if caught, both parties will likely be reported and get red negative trust. This will normally render the account inoperative for campaigns, since they normally require no negative trust from it’s participants. In addition, merit will become very difficult to earn by those accounts, as trust is often looked at before awarding merit (although not always).
From the purchaser’s perspective, you need to consider the amount of scams that have taken place related to account trade. From what I’ve seen, it is not unusual to end up getting no account in return, of getting one that has already compromised some rule and may be in the process of being banned.
Therefore, despite it not being prohibited, the downside to trading accounts add up to quite a bit.
