Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
The silly thing is that some of the sellers are still using subbed accounts to spam shout chat regardless. I'm inclined to believe they have to be cheating the system somehow to get free subs if they can afford paying for a new spam bot on a daily basis across several servers.
Majority of sub'd RMT bots are paid for with stolen credit card information. People that buy gold get their information stolen, and there are currently websites you can go to to buy credit card numbers in bulk. SE doesn't like this either since it isn't free money for them, as soon as a card is reported as stolen their bank would issue a charge back to SE to get their clients money back (and refusing to pay them could get SE into hot water with that bank). Lead Dev of SWG years ago revealed in an article that charge back fees were costing the game just over $1M a year, I'd image it's gotten worse in more recent years.