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4 years ago
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Request for Reimbursement of Hacked Tokens

I've been discussing with EA support for the past half-an-hour and they instructed me to make a post on the forums in the hopes that I can receive back my stolen tokens.
What happened today was the following:
-I logged in on Steam and saw that I received multiple battlepass rewards.
-I don't understand why I received these, but I see that some of my daily's were already completed, I assumed this was an Apex server bug.
-I play a game and notice that I have a different clan tag, I play through it with the randoms (and we win) and then I check the clan tag to see what's happening.
-I find that I have apparently been winning games 4 hours ago, when I was asleep, and in a mode I can't understand (I can't read chinese)
-I now realize that I also lost my apex coins, in which I believed I had between 500-700 (I'm pretty sure it was 600) that I've saved from my previous pass and was going to use with the remainder coins of the season to buy the next battlepass.
-I also find that I'm now diamond ranked (I was platinum 3 I believe) which means the Chinese lettering was most likely "ranked".
-I now have 2 concerns, in the short amount of time the hacked accounts have won/placed top 3 in about 6 games, which if they got at least 6 kills would bring me up to diamond. My concern was whether they used an aimbot or other illegal measures. Secondly, I now am unable to purchase the next season battlepass without spending disposable income, which I do not have.
-I contact support and let them know the situation, they assure me not to worry and I'll be able to receive my tokens. After verifying my account to strenghten security, and changing password on both the origin and email, I'm informed they cannot fix the lost apex tokens even though they told me I could. Instead they have instructed me to kindly ask for them here.

Therefore, I ask from respawn the following. May I either:
1. Rollback my account before the hacker logged in
2. Receive 150 apexcoins so I can purchase the next battle pass.

Additionally, please check to see if I will be banned for any 3rd party cheats, even though the transcript from EAsupport says it won't happen, it is a concern of mine.

Attached are h1, h2 and the transcript. h1 and h2 are the wins I can see in the club room. "|-LostHope-|" is my origin account and "Imma mess you up" is my steam account.

I don't believe I'm asking the impossible here and I'm providing all the proof on my end. 

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    4 years ago

    Hey @l-LostHope-l,

    Sorry to hear you've had this happen to you. That's a huge pain when you're just wanting to play some Apex, even before the missing coins.

    In these cases what we're able to do is help re-secure the account and get you back into the game. I'm afraid we're not able to provide additional coins, and there's not a way to simply roll an account back as you're hoping, sadly.

    I do see the advisor was able to help get 2FA added to the account as an extra security measure, which is great.

    From there they advised a forum post not to have the coins granted, but to provide feedback on what's able to be done in these situations, apologies if that was unclear. I'll be sure to pass that along as I know it's a disappointment, but I'm glad to see you're at least able to get back into the game and account here.

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  • @l-LostHope-lFirst thing to do is to change your password and enable 2 factor authentication

    The apex coins were likely spent on apex packs or something else really cheap in the shop so they will most likely not be refunded, On Epic Games I had a similiar experience where I tried to log onto a game as usual but it kept saying my password was incorrect, I ended up changing the password then saw where someone in taiwan attempted to log into my google account which is who i assumed also took my epic games account but I noticed it about 2 hours after it happened so no real harm was done I checked replays on Fortnite and nothing was played so I don’t know what game they may of hacked on if any

    Assuming you have changed your password you should be fine, as long as they were not aimbotting and nobody reported you but one thing you could check is your stats to see what your highest kills/damage are for the season and if you don’t see anything abnormally high like a 23 kill game or 3-4k+ damage game they probally weren’t hacking and you can easily check your stats in the lobby just click your name above your character to see them but make sure to check BR, Ranked, and Arenas to make sure nothings out of the ordinary

  • l-LostHope-l's avatar
    l-LostHope-l
    4 years ago

    Sorry if I wasn't clear, they spend all of the apex coins on battlepass levels, the most worthless purchase that now means that I can't purchase the next battlepass. It's my only concern that I can't keep buying the seasonal pass despite being a seasonal player that completes it. It's why I'm only asking for the bare minimum 150 coins to buy the next pass (and ill have to buy it end of next season anyway since I'll need 200 more free coins).

    Additionally, it wall all ranked, 3.7k damage 12kills is the peak. Considering its platinum to diamond, I doubt it was a smurf that is using hacked accounts, so I'm more inclined to believe some level of third party cheat was used.

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    4 years ago

    Hey @l-LostHope-l,

    Sorry to hear you've had this happen to you. That's a huge pain when you're just wanting to play some Apex, even before the missing coins.

    In these cases what we're able to do is help re-secure the account and get you back into the game. I'm afraid we're not able to provide additional coins, and there's not a way to simply roll an account back as you're hoping, sadly.

    I do see the advisor was able to help get 2FA added to the account as an extra security measure, which is great.

    From there they advised a forum post not to have the coins granted, but to provide feedback on what's able to be done in these situations, apologies if that was unclear. I'll be sure to pass that along as I know it's a disappointment, but I'm glad to see you're at least able to get back into the game and account here.

  • So can I get confirmation that I will not be banned into what I believe is cheats?

  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @l-LostHope-l Sadly no one can give this confirmation but the Terms of Service teams. They are the only ones who can access information in terms of cheating or suspensions. You may file a ticket though with them explaining the concern you may have that actions could be taken against you.
  • Well exactly what I thought would happen, happened.

    I am now banned from Apex for the punishment of not having 2FA and getting hacked. It would be really nice if your support doesn't lie for everything they say when you contact them.

    I asked for 2 things:
    -Return my apex tokens used on the battlepass
    -Review any upcoming bans

    She told me both would occur, while neither happened.

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