If you've made a new character anytime in the last few months then you've experienced the latest form of gold seller spam. You'll be doing your leveling thing, grinding or boars or what not, and suddenly you'll get a party invite from a level 1 warrior in either Elwynn Forest or Durotar. Should you accept the invite, you'll be inundated with offers for everything from "cheap WoW gold" to hacks that transform your character into a level 10,000 behemoth.

This latest form of attack comes after Blizzard eliminated many of the abilities of 10-day trial accounts, which are used by spammers as a cheap and disposable work force. Thankfully, Blizzard has finally caught on to this latest method of advertising and has removed the ability for trial accounts to initiate party invites:

We applied a small hotfix early this morning to include an additional restriction to trial accounts.

Trial accounts may no longer invite players to a party. They can still, however; accept invites from subscriber accounts who they may wish to group with.

For the majority of you, this means little to nothing, as the spam simply doesn't reach past the initial leveling zones of each faction.