https://wccftech.com/new-world-character-transfers-paused-as-amazon-promises-bans-to-players-using-an-exploit/

As reported earlier this week, Amazon Games had enabled the character transfer feature in New World so that players may reach their friends on a server of their choosing. However, a percentage of players who've immediately transferred their character had to deal with a 'character persistence issue' that didn't save any of their further progress on the new server. As a side effect of this bug, some players found out that they could trade their gold with another player, log out, log back in and find that their gold was still there, leading to gold duplication.

Amazon has since confirmed that anyone who intentionally used this bug as an exploit would be banned from New World.