Bouffard offered to sell online wow gold characters.
WOW GOLD, a multiplayer online role-playing game, has more than 11 million monthly subscribers now. In wow gold, players create characters such as elves, trolls or dwarves that take part in adventures in a land called Azeroth.Recently, police say a video gamer is caught up in real life for online transgressions. Officers arrested him Monday in what they said was a ruse to swindle other gamers out of their money. Christopher H. Bouffard, 23, was charged with scheming to defraud and two counts of grand theft. He was being held at the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail Tuesday.They do not explain why Bouffard is accused of defrauding paid hundreds of dollars for characters when they could create their own for free after paying a minimal monthly subscription fee. Bouffard offered to sell online wow gold characters but cut off all contact once he received the payment. Bouffard accepted at least $760 from two people in 2008, and there are at least two more victims."The crime is, Mr. Bouffard took money in exchange for a product - in this case, I'm assuming it was an account with several high level characters which probably took several months to build up. He then took the money, and did not deliver the product. That's fraud, last time I checked. And no, I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for that, but I don't judge those that do. It's their money.""If little boys living at home with Mommy want to play wow gold games and Mommy gives them the money to buy a new character for their little pretend war game, and they lose it to some pretend person...well, maybe if these little boys spent more time studying in school or actually living in the real world.
