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Unfair Client Ban ( possible account hacked ) (got unbanned)

UPDATE: I GOT UNBANNED AFTER 1 WEEK. TRY TALKING DIRECTLY ON LIVE CHAT, THAT HELPED A LOT. I WAS LUCKY AND GOT A REALLY NICE SUPPORT GUY

MY STORY WITH APEX LEGENDS

I started playing Apex Legends since it launched. Me and my friends were having a lot of fun for the frist time in a battle royale. We never liked this genere, but Apex was something diffrent. It was so satisfying, fun and exciting to play. I will cut the story short. Fast forward, I kept playing every season from 1 to 5, completing the battle passes, along playing the events at their limit. I also have a lot of skins and nice things on my account. Most of my friends left the game long ago for it's proeminent flaws, glitches and problems, but I loved it too much to leave it behind. So here I am with 890h spent on it:

I recently got banned on my Apex Legends account. ☹️

HOW DID I GET BANNED

You wonder how I got banned ?

Ok so hear me out. 🤐

Yesterday I joined Apex to play once again with my friends, but as soon as the matchmaker found a game, it logged me out and a message popped up saying: "The client's game account has been banned : Banned." I nearly had a heart attack to be honest. I did not even play that day  at all, and I was greeted by that. I never used any kind of cheats whatsoever, nor third party programs or exploits. I read the EA guidelines and rules about Apex and I did not break any rule. I checked my email to see if I got something from EA. To my horrific surprise I found there an email from 11 am. That email was stating that I was caught cheating, thus banning my client. I had no words and my head started to hurt. I was banned from one of my favourite games. 😢

POSSIBLE ACCOUNT HACKED

To make things even worse:

Something was off with my account these days, because I would get random match reports from ranked or casual games I did not play. I never EVER gave away my account data or password. These matches however, were not affecting my in game stats for some reason. I believe they did only once with a ranked game, noticing only later. Also my legends and skins were  sometimes not the ones I selected in the menu before. Possible hacked account or glitch, I have no idea.

CONCLUSION AND FINAL THOUGHTS

I can provide any information needed or proof I am asked to, becasue I never cheated. I have recordings, streams and screenshots of my past games.

I probably got hacked and someone cheated on my account. My stats aren't even that great, just average.

Considering that EA still did not respond to my filled form, I lost some hope.

Screenshots attached with my account's stats in this post!

Please if someone reads this, do help me! Vote this post up, share it. Any form of help is more than wellcome!

Thank you,

SteamedPaul

  • Hey @SteamedPaul 

    Sorry to hear that you got banned, but don't worry if you didn't do anything wrong, you prob get your account back.
    We cannot assist you with bans on Answer HQ but I'll help you to contact the right team.

    I see you already filled in a form but just to make sure you send it to the right team, I'll give you all the information. 

    Because you hint that your account was possibly compromised, I recommend you to contact the support team.
    They can help to get your account secure again and add some extra lines of defense to avoid this happening again.
    https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/ 


    After your account is secure, you'll have the option to create an appeal with the EA Advisor that will be sent to the Terms of Service team.
    They will then review this case and investigate this case if you have nothing to fear, I'm sure you"ll be unbanned soon.. 😉

    It could take up to 5 business days before you get a reply, this could take sometimes a bit longer.
    Just keep an eye on your mailbox and spam/promotion folders, sometimes these emails get routed to those folders.
    But the EA advisor will have more information about this so take his/her word over mine.

    Best of luck and Stay safe! 🙌


    Useful link: EA Help - How to get more information about my ban or suspension 

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