First time post, i like to give critizism...
The first method would probally only work if you really give a nice sob story.
And the secound way i think will pretty much never work, a lvl 1 character is saying that the wrong person got banned. Ok say you do lvl him to even 20 theyd be questioning that. And how would this person know someone else got banned instaed of him? Also i have a feeling that the GM can see its a trail account if they look into it. So i really dont think the secound method can work. But hey who knows maybe you'll get a stupid GM.