Main account banned - Abuse of Economy

[lynn1239]

1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account?
Honorbuddy and 1 time Gatherbuddy for 10 minutes to test something.


2)If so, when was the last time?:
Yesterday


3)What profile were you using?:
Kicks Leveling Profile MoP

Have been using Archeologybuddy 2 weeks ago and AutoAngler 3 months ago.

4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname:
TUANHA PALADIN


5)What plugins are you using?:
AutoEquip2, anti drown, ShutUp


6)How many hours per day did you bot for?:
4-5hours with manual play in between

6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot?
100%, I had wow on a 800x600 resolution and was checking some websites next to it. It haven't been stuck or what so ever.


7)How many auctions per day did you have?:
0.


8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods?
I was multiboxing with AutoHotKey and IBoxer but stopped using IBoxer since it automaticly followed the other char. I don't think this has anything to do with it tho.


9)Was your account involved in gold selling?
No.


10)EU or US realm?
EU


11)Is the banned account a Scroll of Resurrection or an actual paid account?
Paid, its been my main since 2008, I used this bot mainly because I leveled 5 characters from 85-90 by hand and I was completely bored of it.
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The last time I bought gold was in 2010, for a simple 20k by a trusted website (offgamers). I haven't been playing the AH lately and the only time I reached over 100k I traded 50k to my bf when I server changed. I haven't recieved any gold other than from leveling the last few months and I haven't been trading any. I use a ***** when I'm at school, could this be an automatic ban?


***Notice of Account Closure***

Account Name: ********

Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy

This account was closed because one or more characters were identified exchanging, or contributing to the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for "real-world" currency. This exchange process negatively impacts the World of Warcraft game environment by detracting from the value of the in-game economy.

Even if this is the result of account sharing, the account owner can still be held responsible for the penalty because of the impact it had on the game environment.

We've found the above behaviour is many times directly related to groups responsible for compromising World of Warcraft accounts; we take these issues very seriously. To better understand our position against exploitative activity and the risks involved, please review this article: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/services/anti-gold/

The exploitative activity that took place on this account violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask you take a moment to review these terms at http://eu.blizzard.com/company/legal/index.html. Any recurring subscriptions on this account have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges.

If you believe your account was compromised, please go to the following website https://eu.battle.net/account/support/account-recovery.html. Our support staff will assist you as soon as possible. If you are unable to access your account due to the password being changed, please visit our Login Support site here: https://eu.battle.net/account/support/password-reset.html

For any disputes of this action or further information on Exploitive Activity, please visit the Exploitative Activity FAQ and contact page here: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/200783

Regards,

Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment Europe
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/

 

[lynn1239]

Appeal'd it and got this back:

Greetings,

Your account has now been suspended for 72 hours due to use of third party programs, which is against the Terms of Use (http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/about/termsofuse.html), the relevant part of which can be found in this article :

http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article/50078

When running, the World of Warcraft client may monitor your computer's random access memory (ram) and/or cpu processes for unauthorized third party programs running concurrently with World of Warcraft. An unauthorized third party program as used herein shall be defined as any third party software, including without limitation any addon or mod, that in Blizzard Entertainment's sole determination:

I. enables or facilitates cheating of any type;

II. allows users to modify or hack the World of Warcraft interface, environment, and/or experience in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard Entertainment; or

III. intercepts, mines, or otherwise collects information from or through World of Warcraft. In the event that World of Warcraft detects an unauthorized third party program, Blizzard may

a) communicate information back to blizzard entertainment, including without limitation your account name, details about the unauthorized third party program detected, and the time and date the unauthorized third party program was detected; and/or

b) exercise any or all of its rights under section 6 of this agreement, with or without prior notice to the user.

The use of such programs or files is clearly unfair to the World of Warcraft community playing regularly and is not tolerated on our servers.

Following a review of your case, we can confirm that such program has been used on several occasions by your account, and that the subsequent action taken is appropriate. We would not look to enter into any further communications on this issue as the matter is now considered closed.

Please be advised that sanctions in relation to this matter will not be taken against any new accounts you may wish to create, but the characters from your cancelled account will remain irretrievable. If you should wish to create a new account, you will need to obtain a new and unused CD key with a retail copy of the game.

If you wish to review our current Rules and Policies, they can be found at:

http://eu.blizzard.com/support/index/wow_policy
http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/about/termsofuse.html

Regards,

Blizzard Entertainment

 

[mdterp71]

Congrats - Odd letter as the top says 72Hr Suspension (which is better than perm) but end of email looks like a permban that wasn't overturned. Looks like Blizz is busy and copy/pasting too fast...

 

[zizitop]

Hello!
Got same basic problem only difference is im not using multibox other stuff is same.
Perma banned today 2 of my acc. 1 old main from vanilla and 1 2year old acc,
both for same reason Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy.
Now im appeling for my main and waiting response
I wont appeal for the other.. not yet....
Hope i will get same response like u lynn1239

 

[mckemo]

abuse of economy is always a auto-ban

 

[zizitop]

Making new B-net acc and im done with unbanning
Have to say im using IP service...