Hello i got a newbie question, what information did i need to know before buy an account?
is it a good thing to buy an account? will i get any trouble by using the account I bought?
It's not a good thing to buy an account. It's frowned upon by a large part of the community.
That being said, it's not against the forum rules, so you can actually buy an account if you really want to.
The thing is: buying an account is ALWAYS risky.
The previous owner might have done some bad stuff recently (either over PM or on the forum itself), the account might be hacked, or the previous owner might try to get his account back by signing a message and sending it to the admin.
This can result in the account being taken away, being red-tagged or even impact your other (alt) accounts. If the account you bought got banned after you bought it, you have a real problem there... Also, if your new account gets red-tagged after you bought it because of the actions of the previous owner, you run a real risk of your other accounts getting red-tagged to.
If you really want to buy an account, make sure you do the following things:
- let an experienced, trusted, escrow help you.... By holding the funds AND double-checking the account
- make sure the seller gives you a signed message with an address staked a long time ago, that was coupled to the account
- look at the account history, post history, feedback
- search for the accountname on the forum, look for scam reports or other negative posts made about the account
- cross-reference any addresses that were posted with the account against addresses of known scammers or spammers