Possible to get banned on several accounts because of botting?

[naxxgor]

Hello there, everyone. Sorry for the leecher status, I may not be able to prove it but during the last 8 months my access to the internet has been very limited to IRL reasons. Whenever I can, I still play WoW and every now and then read these forums too. I guess it's time to start contributing soon as I've started to hang out here more and more, but let's start with a quick question. Since the botting section doesn't allow questions, I guess I'll ask here. I tried searching but searching for bots and bans gets me quite a few results

Let's get to the point:

I have 2 WoW accounts and I transferred all the characters to the other one, so now I have an empty useless account and I've thought of botting an alt with it. After reading a lot of forum posts, getting banned wouldn't probably be a surprise especially for an inexperienced botter like me.

So let's say that I have both accounts active and I log on them every day. I start botting on the empty account and one day I get permabanned. Does Blizzard check any data related to the banned account? I log on to both accounts from the same IP so can my real account get banned? I wouldn't like to lose my T6 character because of a silly experiment

[Cursed]

I think they COULD ban you via payment information, or same IP etc.
Afaik nobody knows exactly how Blizz is banning accounts but I think somewhere in the ToA (or whatever) it says that they wont take action to more than the acc you got banned on. (Is this correct english? oO)

Edit : Whoop 999th post

[naxxgor]

Yeah, I guess the banning policy isn't written anywhere but I'd be happy to hear some stories if anyone knows about cases like this. Just post if you or your friend has been banned and had a secondary account that was or wasn't banned in the process, I'd be happy to hear.

[KantTouchThis]

I'd like to know the same thing. Ive botted before, and nothing happened but to be cautious I stopped, but ive been wanting to do it again.

[*Phaze]

Just like Cursed said, nobody really knows how Blizzard Bans;

but i think they would check Ips and payment information to see a match

[Saint-Pasdoy]

Blizz ban with payment information

[Verye]

Nobody but me, of course.

They typically only ban by payment information. And bans don't carry over. For example, if you have 3 accounts, all with the same credit card, and you bot on one of them, it's possible they will close all 3 accounts. But if you make a new account with that credit card, it's fine.

If you've stolen tons of accounts or something similar, they may ban accounts associated by IP. This is rare, though.

[RevisionZero]

When my accounts got banned, they mentioned association of the Owner name.

[Verye]

Revision, copy and paste the email, please.

[Shad0ck]

IP ban? - i dont think both accounts would get banned since i often lan with friends who bot, and were recently banned last month. and i was not

name ban? - never heard of it being done

payment ban? - use gamecards


and as far as botting goes, its not "hacking", the program blizzard uses to catch hacks i believe is called "warden"
botters get banned by going afk and getting reported, or doing the same motions over and over and over again

simple tips: dont go afk (irl, and its getting EXTREMELY tempting, i made a homade bot for bgs)
dont belong to a guild
stay out of populated areas.