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Baganzas
Rising Newcomer
28 days ago
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False Positive Transfer Market Ban on PS5 - Requesting Manual Case Escalation

Dear EA Community Managers,

I am writing to publically request assistance in escalating my case for a comprehensive manual review. My Transfer Market access in FC26 has been permanently banned due to an absolute false positive. My PSN ID is Francisco867 (playing strictly on PlayStation 5).

My automatic support tickets have been repeatedly closed by automated bot responses, completely denying me a fair human investigation. I have been wrongfully accused of using illicit software and engaging in coin distribution, which is 100% incorrect. I play solely on my console with a standard controller and rarely ever touch the Web/Companion Apps. It is technically impossible for me to use scripts or bots.

My trading strategy is purely legitimate: I buy items low and sell high within EA's official price ranges. Recently, I made successful, organic investments in players with wide price intervals such as Joshua Kimmich, Ricardo Quaresma, Kyle Walker, and Ismael Saibari (from which I made over 1 million coins in profit alone). My total legitimate activity generated around 7,000,000 coins over the past month and a half, averaging a well-documented 155,000 coins per day.

This wrongful ban has frozen all my funds and completely blocks me from completing time-limited Squad Building Challenges (SBCs), causing irreversible damage as exclusive event content expires. Furthermore, as a loyal customer purchasing every single edition since 2010, and paying for an annual PlayStation Plus subscription just to access these features, I would never risk my account and financial investment on illicit activities.

Since the normal help tickets are stuck in an automated loop, I kindly ask a Community Manager here to look at my case history and manually escalate it to the Terms of Service (TOS) team for a real device and input log audit.

Thank you for your time.

  • Hi Baganzas​,

    Sorry to hear you’ve been dealing with this.

    I also understand why repeated or similar support responses can make it feel like your case hasn’t been reviewed properly.

    To clarify, ban appeals are reviewed by the Terms of Service team, who re-evaluate the original enforcement action together with any additional information submitted with the appeal. The wording used in the response may be standardized, but the appeal itself is reviewed through that process.

    You can review your current penalty and appeal status here:

    Penalty History

    If another appeal option is still available, I’d recommend including any new and relevant context that hasn’t already been provided, such as the trading pattern you described here and why those transactions were made.

    Unfortunately, we’re not able to access your case history, review device or input logs, or manually escalate or overturn a Transfer Market sanction through the forums.

    You can find the full appeal guidance here:

    Check and appeal EA Account locks, bans, and suspensions

    I know this isn’t the outcome you were hoping for, especially after investing so much time into the game, and I hope the review process can provide you with some clarity.

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  • EA_Salmon's avatar
    EA_Salmon
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    28 days ago

    Hi Baganzas​,

    Sorry to hear you’ve been dealing with this.

    I also understand why repeated or similar support responses can make it feel like your case hasn’t been reviewed properly.

    To clarify, ban appeals are reviewed by the Terms of Service team, who re-evaluate the original enforcement action together with any additional information submitted with the appeal. The wording used in the response may be standardized, but the appeal itself is reviewed through that process.

    You can review your current penalty and appeal status here:

    Penalty History

    If another appeal option is still available, I’d recommend including any new and relevant context that hasn’t already been provided, such as the trading pattern you described here and why those transactions were made.

    Unfortunately, we’re not able to access your case history, review device or input logs, or manually escalate or overturn a Transfer Market sanction through the forums.

    You can find the full appeal guidance here:

    Check and appeal EA Account locks, bans, and suspensions

    I know this isn’t the outcome you were hoping for, especially after investing so much time into the game, and I hope the review process can provide you with some clarity.

  • bowee07's avatar
    bowee07
    Rising Traveler
    28 days ago

    And there’s another one…. Certainly seems to be something a bit wrong down at HQ…

  • EA_Salmon's avatar
    EA_Salmon
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    21 days ago

    Hi, there hasn’t been any reply for a while. Has the issue been resolved?

  • It would be a joke if EA banned you because you are using scripts or bots.

    If this is the case, EA could just go to YouTube and start the party.

  • TruxtonSpangler1's avatar
    TruxtonSpangler1
    Rising Adventurer
    13 days ago

    No, it hasn’t. They’re still doing it to people. They did it quite a bit at the end of SC 26 which ruined the game for many people, including myself.

    I have reached out to your company in every way possible every day for the last three weeks on Monday. I finally sent a letter initiating arbitration with your company because Customer Service apparently can’t do the job.

     

    They will be more expensive for your legal department to have to sort this out, so maybe that will be enough incentive for you guys to take this stuff seriously and quit alienating people from your game that we would really just love to enjoy

     

    I’m an attorney I can drop off our filing anywhere in the United States anytime I want, but this is not fun. I would much prefer that you take the time to resolve these issues before you start trying to squeeze more money out of us.

  • TruxtonSpangler1's avatar
    TruxtonSpangler1
    Rising Adventurer
    11 days ago

    EA say Truxton do Balance transfer. Truxton say no.

    Truxton have ONE account. Truxton play on normal PlayStation. Truxton trade cards by hand. Truxton no buy coins. Truxton no sell coins. Truxton no move coins between accounts. Truxton no bot. Truxton no autobuyer. Truxton no third party trading software.

    EA review many times. EA still say Truxton cheat. EA still never say WHAT TRUXTON DID.

    Truxton not ask secret anti cheat magic. Truxton ask simple question: what transaction was Balance transfer?

    EA have all transaction records. EA close appeal process after Truxton keep asking same simple question.

    Truxton spend over $300 on FC Points in FC 26 and about $1,000 on FC over two years. EA lock Truxton out of Transfer Market at end of FC 26 when Truxton finally have coins to buy endgame players Truxton worked toward all year.

    Truxton now send formal Notice of Dispute to EA Legal.

    Truxton also decide simple thing.

    No FC 27.
    No FC Points.
    No more money until EA fix problem.

    Truxton like football game. Truxton want play football game. Truxton do not want spend another year building club if EA can take away major part of game for something Truxton did not do.

    EA eventually must discover fire.

  • TruxtonSpangler1's avatar
    TruxtonSpangler1
    Rising Adventurer
    11 days ago

    No 

    EA say Truxton do Balance transfer. Truxton say no.

    Truxton have ONE account. Truxton play on normal PlayStation. Truxton trade cards by hand. Truxton no buy coins. Truxton no sell coins. Truxton no move coins between accounts. Truxton no bot. Truxton no autobuyer. Truxton no third party trading software.

    EA review many times. EA still say Truxton cheat. EA still never say WHAT TRUXTON DID.

    Truxton not ask secret anti cheat magic. Truxton ask simple question: what transaction was Balance transfer?

    EA have all transaction records. EA close appeal process after Truxton keep asking same simple question.

    Truxton spend over $300 on FC Points in FC 26 and about $1,000 on FC over two years. EA lock Truxton out of Transfer Market at end of FC 26 when Truxton finally have coins to buy endgame players Truxton worked toward all year.

    Truxton now send formal Notice of Dispute to EA Legal.

    Truxton also decide simple thing.

    No FC 27.
    No FC Points.
    No more money until EA fix problem.

    Truxton like football game. Truxton want play football game. Truxton do not want spend another year building club if EA can take away major part of game for something Truxton did not do.

    EA eventually must discover fire.