Quote Originally Posted by 'Talamarr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=185664#pos t185664
Why did they ban him for exploitation and not account sharing? I give my RL friend thousands of gold all the time.

My assumption is that the money transfer put up a red flag that later revealed the "account sharing violation" but they still called it economy exploitation. Is that what happened?
This is an assumption on my part, but I'm assuming that they looked at both accounts, saw different names, but being played from the same IP, and saw gold transfer, and that triggered the ban.

I'm thinking that the initial suspicion - transferring illegal gold, or that you were part of a farming operation, or one of the accounts was stolen and being stripped - is what locked the accounts down, and then if they're wrong, the review of the logs by Account Admin would show it being legit or not.

If you had the same info on all accounts, then you'd just contest the ban, and get the accounts back.

Since the accounts don't match up, you won't be able to contest, because they now have account sharing to nail you, not being a farmer or account thief.

I'm wondering if they have something set up to look for this exact situation, to lock down stolen accounts asap. We MBers don't get hit because all of our accounts are legit, and have passed "review" by having been reported in game, so gold transfers don't trigger anything.

If they have, that is a VERY good thing, they'll be able to nail stolen accounts as soon as gold is transferred. Bad for those who's accounts don't match, and yet another solid, solid reason to make sure you set up your accounts very, very carefully!

Again, all my assumption, but I'm wondering if they have something new working on the server, and led in part to the recent ban wave, and all the people in the customer service forum who had accounts banned, were also dual boxing them and transferred large amounts of gold - and were using old accounts a friend gave them, or they bought, or whatever.

The GMs have said it's laughably easy to spot us, I wonder if they've automated the process...