Account Banishment?

[Badious]

So I was playing WoW Last night, and went to bed, all fine and dandy...always play on my same PCs either at home(3 PCs at Home actually) or at work. I come into work this morning and all of sudden have a blizzard notice saying they investigated my account and it appears that it was being played by someone else? Now that seems a bit odd...went to bed at around 11pm CST got the email from Blizzard less than an hour later(11:59 to be exact)....I have been on my account a lot lately as I haven't had to work due to the flooding (free vacation, yeah!)..do you think this is why? Because I actually managed to play more than usual and actually level my 66(might have been 67 before this last week) Mage to 69 in the last week? I mean it's only three levels max hardly power leveling for a weeks worth of play and I have switched to my Warlock and played him also, so it's not like I've been grinding out gold or anything (I only have a little over 1kG on each toon)

Just seems quite odd that within an hour of logging off they banned my account, so of course now I'm stuck in limbo waiting to hear from them, cant post to customer support on their forum cause my account is locked...can't talk to anyone there because they don't have a phone number for Account Administration...so yeah..in any case, any clues or suggestions as to why they for no reason that I can tell banned my account? I have never let anyone play my account, I know I have no viruses or keyloggers...I don't even type my password in for the game I have a text file I just cut and past from that is a randomly generated password..so yeah..pretty hard to keylog Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V...I run up to date Symantec AV on all my machines so no viruses there....Ugh...kind of upsetting really when I am into work early when I am not supposed to be and was looking forward to getting a few quests done before 8 this morning...grrr....

Well I guess if somehow for some reason it was compromised after I went to bed last night, thanks blizzard for saving my mains Epics, maybe..I would be sad if I came in to work and found a naked Warlock stripped of all of his epic lootz

Thanks for listening to my rant...I know I know...wall of text crits you for 99999...thanks again.

Badious

[0Blackmage0]

Something like this happened to me once.. it was a really big mess to get everything back and normal (about a week and a half, Granted that what happened to me was that my account had been hacked and taken over)

Anyways Send an email to this person
[email protected]

and the Blizzard contact number is
1-800-59-BLIZZARD (800-592-5499)

[Zyonin]

Offtopic: @Blackmage, please stack your sig images vertically as to the horizontal layout you have now. For those of us with smaller screen resolutions, we have to scroll left to right to read the posts which is really annoying.

[Eas]

Originally Posted by Xinh Offtopic: @Blackmage, please stack your sig images vertically as to the horizontal layout you have now. For those of us with smaller screen resolutions, we have to scroll left to right to read the posts which is really annoying.

his sigs have always been vertical for me... i dunno, might be a setting i have somewhere.

anyway, back on topic. Good luck with this Badious! I had my account hacked a few weeks back, but all they wanted was to play my toons, I got to shoot em down good and hard when I got back on and they made a toon on some other account. Tried to tell me it was their account... I dunno, stupid people are stupid. *cue Seerah's sig*

[Badious]

Originally Posted by Eas his sigs have always been vertical for me... i dunno, might be a setting i have somewhere. anyway, back on topic. Good luck with this Badious! I had my account hacked a few weeks back, but all they wanted was to play my toons, I got to shoot em down good and hard when I got back on and they made a toon on some other account. Tried to tell me it was their account... I dunno, stupid people are stupid. *cue Seerah's sig*

Thanks, Im on eternal hold right now with Blizzard...wait times are over half hour they say..I am wondering if they did a blanket ban like they did two years ago of 59000 accounts..Like I said, I have no idea why I would have suddenly been banned when I was on and playing until 11pm last night and at 11:59 suddenly my account gets banned, one hour after I just logged off playing it...my poor little 69 mage is just sitting in one of the Mana Forges in Netherstorm waiting to kill Glacius's Handler!

[Petrah]

I'm not saying your account was compromised, but check out these threads anyways just to be on the safe side (it's a copy/paste, i'm sure you wont need the first thread).

*Important* Key-Loggers and Computer Security:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...78038509&sid=1

*Account Compromise Info Center*
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...73308319&sid=1

Account Retrieval Tips and Suggestions
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...62836524&sid=1

[septor]

Originally Posted by Xinh Offtopic: @Blackmage, please stack your sig images vertically as to the horizontal layout you have now. For those of us with smaller screen resolutions, we have to scroll left to right to read the posts which is really annoying.

Adblock them.

Problem solved.

[dafire]

Originally Posted by septor Adblock them. Problem solved.

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158

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[Badious]

Originally Posted by 0Blackmage0 Something like this happened to me once.. it was a really big mess to get everything back and normal (about a week and a half, Granted that what happened to me was that my account had been hacked and taken over) Anyways Send an email to this person [email protected] and the Blizzard contact number is 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (800-592-5499)

Ugh right when I was on a streak to finally level my first Alt to 70 they kill my progess..how sad...will be calling blizzard for sure today.

Hmm so the phone number you gave says they can't help with Account Admin issues? So legit users are stuck waiting it out to hear back from the email I sent and fax I sent to them with my info? I don't get it. I hardly played my account for a few months, meaning only played for 1-2 hours like 3 nights a week at most, then starting Friday of last week ( June 13th) I start playing again due to time off..I manage to actually lvl my Mage ,and then BAM I get banned on the 22nd...WTF? Its not like I leveld from 60-70 in a week. I went from 66possibly 67 to 69 in a week..is that too much? I didn't gain a ton of gold at all..as I said just over 1k gold on both accounts I play constantly...nothing more..I am poor in the World of Warcraft standards..I use Ryas UI with only a few extra addons all from Here or WoWAce.com...I have no programmable keyboard no external programs...nothing that is bannable (only exe I ever run related to wow is WoWEcon, and that just collects info from SV file, and yet I am stuck unable to get anything done Sad sad..I have not been playing much due to RL stuff anyways so when I get a chance to actually play it'd be nice not get banned for actually playing my account...

Anyone have any other suggestions?

[Kaomie]

Originally Posted by Badious ... have a blizzard notice saying they investigated my account and it appears that it was being played by someone else?

I do not understand this part.

If you ever get some clarifications, I would be glad to know what they meant by that.