Given that WOW has it’s own virtual currency, with a fairly brisk USD-WOW exchange existing (albeit in violation of a EULA), I’d say the counterfeiting claim does indeed seem very unlikely. Certainly, I’ve never heard of actual criminal charges—the few Google results for arrests seem to be from other countries or other crimes that just incidentally used WOW Gold.
Given that WOW has it’s own virtual currency, with a fairly brisk USD-WOW exchange existing (albeit in violation of a EULA), I’d say the counterfeiting claim does indeed seem very unlikely. Certainly, I’ve never heard of actual criminal charges—the few Google results for arrests seem to be from other countries or other crimes that just incidentally used WOW Gold.