Here's a movie showing you how the spammers are getting all those people to line up and die preciesly so that they form the URL for a gold company...

As far as anyone can figure out, they created these gnomes using a bot, and then used a client-side teleport hack to put them in exactly the right place above the Ironforge floor. They also had to kill them somehow of course, but who knows how that was done. Did they send newly created gnomes out to the trolls in the lowbie area (because most starter mobs are actually neutral, so won't attack normally), and then wait until right as they died to teleport them away? If you went to the starting area while this was happening, would you see little gnomes disappearing? As I said: how extremely strange.

Here's a new gold site spamming technique - forming words with the bodies of fallen level 1 players!

Pretty desperate if you ask me - pics included.

We've all seen salesmen who would do anything to get a sale, it seems that the gold spammers in World of Warcraft have once again taken it one step further with a new marketing campaign: Falling Gnomes. These level 1 gnome warriors were plummeting to their deaths in Ironforge with their bodies spelling out the name of a site that peddles gold.

Here's an important note from Drysc on using the new feature:

With all the gold spam going around lately, one of the WoW Insider writers guilds created a guild spam drinking game, here's the rules.

• After you get a spam tell, yell out the name of the spammer in Vent or guild chat. Everyone else who got the same spam at the same time takes a sip.
• Take a sip if the spammer has no vowels in his or her name.
• Take a drink if the spammer has ONLY vowels.
• Take a sip if the spammer is a rare class/race combination, like dwarf rogue or troll mage.
• Take a sip if you create a macro of your own and spam them back until they log off.
• Take a drink if you send them obscene messages back.
• Take two drinks if you manage to get all the swear words in the English language into one sentence.
• Take a drink if you start talking about your personal life.
• Take two drinks if you get them to respond to you.
• Finish the bottle if they report you to Blizzard.

Blizzard representative and poster in the World of Warcraft forums Tseric recently commented on Blizzard tackling the gold selling spam that is coming in game alot of the time now...

We've been dealing with gold sellers, botters and hackers since before this game was ever released. It is an ongoing process, with each side always developing new tactics to outwit the other side.

Unfortunately, it does not appear there is a "magic bullet" that makes this all disappear. We continue to strongly address this particular area, as we always have.

We're in the works of developing more tools to address the problem of gold selling spammers and we expect to add more tools for our hacks team to use, as time goes on.

It is still an important part of the process for players to inform us of this type of action, so that we can document and build a case for removing account status from spammers.