VPNs: A Ban Appealer's Best Friend

[Valkafar]

A virtual private network (VPN) is a private network that interconnects remote (and often geographically separate) networks through primarily public communication infrastructures such as the Internet. VPNs provide security through tunneling protocols and security procedures [1] such as encryption. For example, a VPN could be used to securely connect the branch offices of an organization to a head office network through the public Internet. A VPN can also be used to interconnect two similar-type networks over a dissimilar middle network for example, two IPv6 networks over an IPv4 network.

tl;dr: Basically, it shows Blizzard a fake IP from somewhere else in the world.



How you can benefit from this

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If you get banned, you can claim that you were hacked.


~Steps~

1. Only use the VPN while botting.
2. NEVER bot without the VPN.
3. Make sure that your VPN actually effects WoW's IP. (HideMyIP only does if you pay $60 a year, not the $30 package.)
4. When you get caught botting, be sure to include that you found items moved, gold missing, and your character logged out at different spots.

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~List of VPNs~

1: Hotspot Shield (Free!)
2: HideMyIP
3: HideMyAss
4: nVPN

These are most of the VPNs that I find work.

 

[bryan1487]

how am I able to find out if it does hide my IP address for WoW?

 

[celmaisef]

Do what he said and everytime you get a ban or a lock if you have an unmerged account, they will ask for a copy of your ID to unlock the account. So there are downsides on using these VPN's
I do not recommed using Hidemyass VPN as the blizzard employees can detect it, and know if u are using it.

 

[Gnarfman]

From my point of view don't even think about using a public known vpn service.
It got me banned twice for exploiting the economy and the statement from blizz was that the ban was triggered because I was using a VPN service.

 

[jeck9]

From my point of view don't even think about using a public known vpn service.
It got me banned twice for exploiting the economy and the statement from blizz was that the ban was triggered because I was using a VPN service.

is this true for anyone else?

 

[bryan1487]

Where am I able to do this?

 

[Valkafar]

I've used Hotspot shield to be unbanned 4 times now. Never needed to prove my ID.

 

[Vyl]

I tried to use Hotspot Shield, and i couldn't connect to WoW or Steam. Any suggestions?

 

[Kronz]

Why did the word *** suddenly become censored ?

 

[Giwin]

Why did the word *** suddenly become censored ?

Because the staff don't want to risk pissing off blizzard anymore by endorsing ***s to bypass an Injunction, it doesn't help for their court cases as it makes them look like a non-proper professional business.

 

[Sytrus]

is this true for anyone else?

Yes. I've got 2 accounts banned because of it. In the mail they sent back to me, they said 'we close these accounts because services like *** are mostly related with gold selling or hacking'.

Sorry for my bad english.

Sytrus