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5 years ago
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I received a permanent ban, support cannot help for more than 2 months

Hello, I am a player from Russia, more than two months ago (at the beginning of January) I began to notice that strange things are happening in my Apex Legend account:

For example, the daily achievements were partially completed, several new unknown people appeared in the lists of friends (Chinese friends ...)) I worked during the day and usually went into the game in the evening and played a couple of hours on average at that moment. At first I thought it was some errors in the synchronization of accounts, because not long before that happened, I linked the Steam account to Origin.


But soon I decided that maybe this was really a hack and I opened an appeal to the Russian EA support service and described the problem in detail in it. Soon I received a permanent ban, a couple of weeks passed, and my request remained in the "processing" status.


Further, I already called support, where they promised me to consider everything and that it was necessary to wait for some time, the technical department is very busy and the waiting time for applications is increased. After another 2 weeks, I made a call again, received about the same information (I will not describe the calls in detail, but in general I did not receive anything informative, but only expect answers in style: " The technical department is very busy, wait some time ..."
In general, I have called there 6 times already (Usually the breaks between calls were about 2-3 weeks).


After 4 calls, not the most friendly consultant said that the "two weeks of consideration" promised on the site did not correspond to reality and get answers same as before...

At the same time, he closed my appeal (# 72656988) and opened a new one (# 75036995), just with the subject "Account and Billing "). In general, then a couple of weeks later there was another call from me, they said that the appeal was under consideration in the technical support service. In general, everything is the same as before... 

Another two weeks passed, there was another call, again promises and offers to wait.
Moreover, after the last call, I did not specifically mention the "case" number, since this supposedly puts you in the queue for consideration, but "supposedly automatically" another repeated application was created, which essentially leads to the same result (according to information from consultants)


In general, the Russian support service cannot help me and has been constantly "feeding with promises" for more than two months.


About hacking.
As I later learned from the Internet: Our "Chinese friends" have the following scheme: they buy or steal databases with account data (unfortunately I was too lazy to bind two-factor authentication at that time, my mistake ...) and then they play "rating matches" from under a stolen account, using cheating programs with friends who do not use them, so that they grow in the rating. That is, it is beneficial for them that the player whose account is hacked does not notice what is happening as long as possible, does not contact support and therefore does not attract additional attention.

Thank you for your attention, I am applying here with hope for help in resolving this situation.

I have never used any third-party software myself. I think that the game should be fair and any attempts to interfere with this (even macros and same things) 

lead to an imbalance and repel the majority of normal players from the game.


PS: So some time ago, I already completely excluded Pubg from the range of games that it is possible to play, because Cheating in this game grew from month to month and it was no longer possible to get at least some excitement and pleasure from a game in which the rules are absolute are not equal for everyone, it is very sad that the developers could not organize a normal anti-cheating system there, and instead only released more and more unnecessary "decorations" for characters and weapons, while ignoring the balance itself ...

  • Hey @MrMonStrik @Couchofheaven,

    If you have already created a case that has been sent up to our Terms of Service (TOS) team for review, then I'm afraid you will just need to wait on them to reply.

    The TOS team is the only one able to review bans on an account, so we're unable to address this via the forums. 

    They are taking longer to reply due to a high volume currently as each appeal is manually reviewed, but they will reach out via email as soon as they've investigated your account. Thank you for the patience in the meantime.

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  • So... my account was another victim of getting hacked and then banned. 

    I've been waiting for EA's support for over 14 business days now, I reached out to live chat and their only response is you gotta keep waiting... anyone got advice on how I can get this expedited? I just want to get my account unbanned. Also what kind of support team, takes over 14 business days to get back to their clients?

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

    Hey @MrMonStrik @Couchofheaven,

    If you have already created a case that has been sent up to our Terms of Service (TOS) team for review, then I'm afraid you will just need to wait on them to reply.

    The TOS team is the only one able to review bans on an account, so we're unable to address this via the forums. 

    They are taking longer to reply due to a high volume currently as each appeal is manually reviewed, but they will reach out via email as soon as they've investigated your account. Thank you for the patience in the meantime.

  • Hello Dear COMMUNITY MANAGER

    If you read my message in full, you probably noticed that I noted the strange closure of my first case, as well as the fact that the consultants said that my case was already being processed by TOS, therefore:

    1.It is not clear why it was necessary to close the first case with the status "problem solved" and discover new one.


    2.If the case has been analyzed by TOS for a long time, then why hasn't there been any result for more than 2 months ?


    3.If there was a consultant's mistake, as a result of which my appeal was rolled back in the queue, is it possible to somehow indicate the priority for the Case in the queue by the support department?


    PS: One of the consultants mentioned that the data on the servers is stored for about 2 months, I don't know if this is true, but if there is some truth in this, then could it be that soon will be nothing to consider ...?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Thanks for attention

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago
    @MrMonStrik
    If multiple cases are opened about the same subject, the team will typically make sure one is sent to our TOS team for review with all the relevant information, then close others as duplicates.

    Do note that the case has been sent to the TOS team, but that simply means it is waiting in their queue, not that they have been investigating it for the entire time. They will need to work through all the other cases that were submitted before yours, which is delayed currently due to high volume.

    Those are handled in the order in which they were escalated to our TOS team, I appreciate the patience.
  • I had only one open case (about a month) and the consultant closed it and opened a new one with title "Account and Billing".

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