Got banned, need advices

[x11r6]

Today all my accounts were banned all at once.
I had 8 toons botting herbs and mineral, 2 toons were processing materials, on 1 account i was lvling up a toon, and the last account had never botted in since WOTLK.
They all got banhammered at the same time, and on all of them i received this email:

Greetings,

This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:

Battle.net Account Name: ******
World of Warcraft Account Name:  WoW1

Account Action: Account Closure

Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.

Type of Violation: Exploitation
Category of Violation: Extreme Exploitation
Character Name Involved:

Being banned is part of the "game", but i want to understand how i got caught..i mean, how did they relate botting and non botting accounts? Did they match the same IP, or perhaps hardware ID of something?
If someone has any clue, any answer is welcome.


I apologize if my english is not 100% accurate.

[phantom325]

"Extreme Exploitation"...
Either you're not telling us something, or they banned you for something you did not do. Extreme Exploitation is usually something that involves like killing bosses in one hit, duping, etc, not botting.

[Piju]

First of all, someone has to report you. Then they're watching that specific account and I think if they see you are botting, they check your IP for other accounts... and in your case you've botted on 8 accounts? That are for sure too many botting accounts for one player..
Did you send gold between these accounts? Blizzard can track those things too I think...

[x11r6]

"Extreme Exploitation"...
Either you're not telling us something, or they banned you for something you did not do. Extreme Exploitation is usually something that involves like killing bosses in one hit, duping, etc, not botting.

I've told you everything. The only "recent" exploit i used is the one with repeatable quests to raise guild lvl to 25 in one day (for everyone who's asking: it doesn't work anymore). Nothing more than that.

I bot on SoR accounts. I've sold some golds to chinese companies in the past few weeks.

I sell golds mostly to private buyers.

All the botting accounts were botting 24/7, included the two accounts with workers.

[Dante]

Seems like a manual ban when a gm looked into your accounts and ip to me

[phantom325]

Seems like a manual ban when a gm looked into your accounts and ip to me

Probably due to the SoR accounts... but even then, they usually only lock them

[Dante]

Probably due to the SoR accounts... but even then, they usually only lock them

I think It's normally automatic, so this time its different since a gm must have looked closer

[Lomnialoran]

I would suggest you to speak with XGamerX (His username on Ownedcore). He might know something about it, and can possibly get you unbanned for a small sum of money.

[x11r6]

Seems like a manual ban when a gm looked into your accounts and ip to me

You are right, after investigating a bit i discovered that both my gold storage guilds were closed, and that several accounts who i didn't user for a long time were permabanned aswell, simply because the login name was similar to the botting accounts.

Do you suggest me to buy a new botting machine? Is there something such as an "hardware ID" that that could have stored?

[Tmass]

Blizzard seems to be on top of their bangame these days :O

[Razor33]

You are right, after investigating a bit i discovered that both my gold storage guilds were closed, and that several accounts who i didn't user for a long time were permabanned aswell, simply because the login name was similar to the botting accounts.

Do you suggest me to buy a new botting machine? Is there something such as an "hardware ID" that that could have stored?

Like someone else said already i think some GM investigated more closely and manually your accounts.
I suggest you to use VMware (Virtual Machine) + some others programs for your bots (or use a boting machine with another Internet connection/IP ) and play normally from the others accs :P I think they can make a connection among them seeing same IP/machine/mac and they can make even more investigations.