account comprimised and Banned wtf???

[abysskeq]

So last night I created 5 accounts paid money for all 5 brand new accounts, xped to 13-14 kept to myself. Had just a few encounters with people asking my how I have 5 chars with the names close to mines, all I said was I am just boxing left it at that.

I went to bed, this morning I wake up to a email saying, account closure advertisment wtf?? Here is a copy of the email:

****Notice of Account Closure****

Account Name: ****

Account Action: Closure
Reason for Action: In-Game Chat Policy Violation - Advertisement and Spamming

This account was closed because a character on the account repeatedly abused World of Warcraft's in-game chat system. This abuse includes advertising third party services/websites and repeatedly spamming in-game chat channels. Abuse of this nature pollutes chat channels shared by all players and harms the game environment as a whole.

You may not perform activity that we consider to be damaging to World of Warcraft. Engaging in such activity violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).

Any recurring subscriptions on this account have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges. For any concerns or disputes regarding this action, please reply directly to this e-mail.

Regards,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
www.worldofwarcraft.com


repeated abuse? wtf? I dont even say anything ever in chat. Not to mention this account hasnt even been active for 24 hours. and advertising? How are they getting this junk. The most bizzare part is that my main account is the one who I responded to any tells, this is my slave account, I never even messaged on him. I am calling blizz up now, man I am pissed. Wtf is happening.
Anyway just wanted to vent out my frustration heh.

[Emil]

tell me what happens.

[palvarik]

Possible account hack?

Any new characters created on that account? They could have done the spamming if your account was hacked

[Ogloo]

ive gotten this before, It was actually pretty funny, I logged into the wow forums, and when u get to choose what character to chat under I had 10 lvl 1 characters in IF/Org, names LKDALKj sdfjksj and lkjoij ext... Bassically this happens all the time, 99% of the time its not you, and they know that, u call them, and say hey, i think my account was hacked then used to exploit or w/e they see, yeah u were offline from ur home internet IP number, then someone else logged on or w/e.. they lift the ban, reset back to the hour u last played, u continue on..

This process took 45 min. for me the last time it happened

also next process, scan all ur computer, get the virus that couldve done this

[abysskeq]

I called them, hopefully this will be fixed. Waiting for a email.

[abysskeq]

I called them already, read above post.

[daviddoran]

I hereby nominate Fursphere for 10 ineterwebz points!

[Khatovar]

I'm still trying to figure out how an account less than 24 hours old gets reported and banned for spam in such a short period of time. I haven't seen a ticket response time that's less than 32 hours on my realm in months.

What happened to the level 58 accounts you asked about leveling up 2 days ago? The suspicious side of me wonders if we're getting the whole story.

[Ualaa]

Get an authenticator too.
But if you were hacked, you'll most likely want to format.
It's doubtful the anti-virus/spyware program will find the cause.

[abysskeq]

Wow people are too suspicious on this website, yes I do have a level 58 (60 now) but what does that have anything to do with a new account I made yesterday? Talking to you Khatovar.

Anyway I just got home, and got this email:

We have restored access to World of Warcraft account WOW1 and reset the password to this account.

It may take up to one hour for our system to generate and send the new password. If you have not received a password within one hour of this message's delivery, please check your Spam, Junk, or Suspect Mail folders.

So this makes me happy.

Btw I called billing/account. Not tech support. Who said anything about tech support? Talking to you Fursphere. I just said I called the rep... If my account gets banned, why on earth would I call tech support? That makes no sense. What I did was call the billing/account number then at the prompt it asked me to press 3 or w/e if my account was closed, so I did and waiting till someone answers. Man so many suspicisions, and assumptions here these people. Yes I did edit my other post about tech support, all the post had was me relaying what the REP said. I thought this wasn't necessary so I edited it out. Didn't know this was a violation of dual-boxing.com ToS.

Anyways, I figured out what could have happened. To all the people who are just curious, and did not assume anything. I purchased a WoW CD Key online at a 3rd party website. And I used the same password of my battle.net account there. So earlier when I went to go post on the World of warcraft forums, there was a level 1char on the select character box. On some random server. I didnt make.

So me purchasing a cd-key at a 3rd party website, (they also sell gold). Used the same password there, they got access to my account and did w/e they do.

For Khatovar, no idea how it got quickly banned or what not. But is that my fault? So don't come at me, for that not like I have control on how blizzard quickly bans people. But when I called another rep again. He told me there was 3 reports on the a level 1 character. So got me.

K thanks for listening, some people should really not assume things if they don't know all the facts. Suspisions are fine, but those should be kept to yourself. Unless you are 100% sure you are right.

You don't want to assume your g/f is cheating on you with her male friend, and approach her all wtf like unless you are 100% sure right? Or you don't want to be a cop, and arrest someone for something you think he did but not enough evidence for. Thats how you lose your job, and your g/f.

Tsk tsk.