30/30 banned and they linked it to my non-botting accounts

[Thunderball]

I'll skip the part where my 30 botting accs have been banned : classic 24/24 instance farming suicide botting, classic stuff I deseserved it and dont give a damn too, this happen every week - 2 weeks

The original part is that they also banned my non-botting accounts : I used the classic pattern : my bots puts the gold in a gbank owned by a character in a legit account (on a safe PC whith different IP adress) where I play from time to time (not a lot but I can do stuff like an instance or garrison derping) I've been running this pattern for more than a year now and no problems until tonight.

So I check my mails and the ban email I've received is pretty funny, they kinda were really pissed at me : (translated since im italian)

Offense : Serious exploitation

This include (This is not a complete list of offenses) :
- The offense have been done willingly and repeated multiple times
- The offense offered to multiple characters inequal benefits
- The offense ruined the economy of the game
- Multiple players and accounts have participed to the offense
- The willing to hide the existence of those offenses

I lost approximatly 4 Milion gold but this mail made my day

 

[Tentomas]

Had same situation a week ago. They banned everything I had. Even 2 years (no gametime) battlechest up to cataclysm.. rofl. Blizz mad

 

[happyfriet]

they don't give a shiet about legit accounts - I learned that the hard way xD So I only bot in wow for gold to sell

 

[Macatho]

Worst was when I got a fucking domain ban.
They banned everything under my @ domain, all battle.nets registered under that domain.

Hate manual GM investigation, kinda why I never ever appeal.

 

[Aion]

Yea, we will never know when they do act so harsh, indeed.

GL with the Redo from scratch!

A good idea for the next time would be to just switch the gold out to something more safer on a distant account, when you pass like 1mill per gbank?

I have seen numbers of such manual investigations, which led to similar Extreme Abuse of Economy bans, and in most cases, there was millions of gold involved, which we handled by single account on a few servers.