@StuckInMudHole
Have you received any E-mails from EA regarding the Ban?
Normally you should have and if not that is a sign of account and E-mail hijacking.
If you did not contact an EA Advisor then I think you should do that as well regarding all of this. Especially since you mention you do not own a PS5 and that is where you say this all happened on.
Here is a link to EA help you can use it to contact EA help https://help.ea.com/help/faq/using-ea-help
You will need to scroll and find the game and issue you need resolved and click it.
Provide as much info about the compromised account incident as you can what you have done to re-secure your account and see if there are any odd connections to your account that EA might be able to assist you with in removing.
After they have helped you out they might submit a ban appeal on your behalf or you can then submit one yourself.
If you believe that a sanction (Suspension/Ban) placed on your account was by mistake you should reach out to the Terms of Service team https://help.ea.com/za/help/account/information-about-locked-or-banned-or-suspended-accounts/
Below are some tips I provide others here from time to time that you might find helpful.
Account Safety
How to keep your account and hardware safe 101:
- Use strong passwords for you game account.
- Use strong passwords for the associated E-mail account. Keep track of your E-mail accounts and what they are connected to.
- Do not use e-mail accounts that you cannot fully control, like those provided to you through, schools, universities, workplace and or other organizations etc. If the Org. revokes your E-mail or you leave the school, switch workplace etc and no longer have access to that E-mail you will end up having issues you do not want or need.
- Do not share either of these passwords with others. Keep note of your passwords in a safe place.
- Enable two factor identification for both the game and associated E-mail accounts.
- Do not let others use your game account (Friends and family alike) because if they do something wrong on your account it is still your fault, nobody wants to have a sanction on their account because somebody else did or said something wrong.
- Do not use internet café’s to access your account and play, you do not know what software is on the hardware there, you do not know if the hardware at the cafe has a hardware ban and this can affect your account in a negative way.
- I would suggest only accessing your account with your own trusted hardware, gaming on another person’s hardware brings some of the same risks as above.
- I would also suggest not letting others use your hardware in order to play with their account, because if they get a hardware ban on your hardware while using it, it can have a negative affect on your account.
- Buying used hardware comes with risks as well. The hardware could have been banned and this is not an EA problem but a problem between the buyer and the seller.
- Play nice with others, in other words do not de-mean, harass or bully others in Chat or over voice coms, both can be reported and that can also have a negative effect on your account.
- Use non-offensive user/gamer tag/club tags, if you get a warning about such change it, doing otherwise can lead to a negative effect on your account.
- Play fair, boosting and teaming are cheating.
- Play fair using cheating software or hardware is not fair and is really only cheating yourself.
- Do not buy and or sell accounts, do you really know what has been done with the account? What cyber info are you giving up? What risk is there that the account is bunk. What is the risk to your hardware?
- Re-read the Terms of Service agreement and the Terms of Sale agreement you agreed to play this game and adhere to it. https://www.ea.com/legal/user-agreement and https://www.ea.com/legal/terms-of-sale
About points 7, 8, and 9, I do know that not everyone can afford multiple hardware setups for the entire family and there is trust that has to be there, talking about the does and don’ts on the use of shared hardware should be done so everybody can enjoy what they do on the hardware and everyone can be safe.
If you believe you have been hacked take appropriate measures to secure your account and associated E-mail account https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/account/secure-hacked-ea-account/
If you believe that a sanction (Suspension/Ban) placed on your account was by mistake you should reach out to the Terms of Service team https://help.ea.com/za/help/account/information-about-locked-or-banned-or-suspended-accounts/
Contacting EA help https://help.ea.com/help/faq/using-ea-help
Best of Luck.
