72 Hour Account Suspension (Now unbanned)

[Frojax]

The main problem for the GMs is that they cant connect accounts for some reason.

Yeah, it would be nice if they could link our accounts and perhaps give us a MB flag so that future GM's would know about us.

I have ordered my Authenticator though, I wasn't willing to pay the express delivery fee, so should have it within 2 weeks, it will put my mind at ease a bit more.

[Bigfish]

I think they do flag us at some point. Generally if you start on a new server or have never been reported though, you can catch a GM off guard. Its been suggested every time you start on a new server you send the GMs a ticket so they can add the note to your accounts. Not that it does you a lot of good at this point, but for future reference.

[Kaynin]

I have no idea if the same department handles forum bans, but back when I only had one account, I was once banned permanently for posting info on windows XP registery settings that improved something I can't recall anymore now.

Took them 3 months to listen to my emails and lift the ban. :P

[zanthor]

Update your subject on the thread so it doesn't look like you are still banned

[Sina]

I would be fuming if this happened to me again.
A suspension or a ban should have already been "carefully and completely investigated" prior to action being taken.

[Dominian]

I havent ordered the authenticator, but i belive its available in europe aswell now?

What i did was to request all my account passwords resetted and copy paste them into a .txt file on my deskope. Now they cant be keylogged atleast, but i guess they can keylogg my email...

[Tonyx]

So you copy the passwords from a file to wow? And you think you are safe? A trojan program can easily monitor your clipboard.

[Frojax]

I havent ordered the authenticator, but i belive its available in europe aswell now?

Yeah, I'm in England and they have them on the blizz site. £4.50 + tax and shipping, comes to a grand total of £12.42

What i did was to request all my account passwords resetted and copy paste them into a .txt file on my deskope. Now they cant be keylogged atleast, but i guess they can keylogg my email...

Yeah, the above poster is right, no files are safe on your machine, it's not just keyloggers you need to fear

I run a virus check and spyware check every week, plus my on access antivirus is always running, no matter what. The scare made me do a full/deep scan and I was safe. But there is no way I would keep passwords on my machine

[Tehtsuo]

.txt files are the epitome of high-security digital storage formats

\sarcasm off

[Taliesin]

Grats to the OP about getting the ban lifted. It would be a badge of honor, you could say, but I hope I don't get anything like that.

To other people that suggest that Blizzard jumped the gun or that a GM didn't do enough investigation first, keep in mind that the game has automated detection systems (Warden) running to catch suspicious actions and log them. Likewise, I would also suspect that repeated suspicious actions in a very short time frame may also prompt the system to take pre-emptive action to stop you and then flag your case as a high priority ticket for a GM to investigate further (such as a high volume of spam reportings on one character in a short timeframe).

My point simply being that it was probably the humans that did the correct thing in this case, rather than started the whole issue.