The $3/4 dollar accounts we're internetcafé's accounts. You couldnt trade on them had no own emailadress and if the 'internetcafé ' holder didn't pay anymore for a longer subscription all the accounts got dropped.
Checkout kinguin.net though. Or make a new account on a brasilian VPN and buy it there its like 6$ i guess. When you login without VPN after you can still use it