From this [URL=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18992609/]MSNBC story[/URL]:

[I]In World of Warcraft, the most popular online game, with an estimated 8 million participants worldwide, some regions of this fantasy domain have grown so lawless that players said they fear to brave them alone. Gangs of animated characters have repeatedly preyed upon lone travelers, killing them and making off with their virtual belongings.[/I]

Now it's common on PvP servers that members of the opposite faction will get ganked, but everyone knows that. This makes it sound like there's a crime area in WoW. Also, you can kill another character in a PvP world, but you cannot take another character's items. Just can't happen... writer may be mixing up the looting of NPC bodies...