WoW account banned - what to do?

I got an email about 2 months ago telling me that my WoW account had been banned for the use of a bot or something. I haven't played WoW since December and my account was closed for maybe 3 months by the time I got that email, so I'm guessing that someone hacked my account, but thats not really important to me.

My question is, is there a way to "un-ban" it and how complicated / time consuming of a process is it? I would like to play some WoW again but I don't really want to jump through a millionhoops just to do so.

I get this all the time, you sure it's legit? no don't look at the links, put the mouse over them and see if they're for the official Blizzard websites that are related to WoW and their games.

There are lots of people that got "banned" for no reason but in the end almost all cases were related to spam and hacking attempts. I also saw 2 or 3 cases that got banned because of bots and hacks because of an username mistake, so contact Blizz support "if you're sure that mail is legit", tell them your story and ask them to verify your entire WoW account for possible changes in the period it should have been inactive. If there was a mistake, they'll probably fix it in a few hours, a day at most, if they'll go through all your characters and all your wow actions, it'll take up to 2-3 days.

Again,IF that email is legit and not just an attempt to get your account info, in short, get hacked.

Keep in mind the list of safe, official Blizzard Entertainment domains:

• Blizzard.com (us.blizzard.com)
• Battle.net
• WorldOfWarcraft.com (redirects tous/eu.battle.net/wow)
• WoWArmory.com (doesn't exist anymore)
• StarCraft2.com (now us/eu.battle.net/sc2)
• Diablo3.com ( us/eu.blizzard.com/diablo3)
• Wow-Europe.com (it's now us/eu.battle.net/wow)
• blizzard-europe.com (or eu.blizzard.com)

Are you sure you logged into legit battle.net site and not the one the email link provided?the_ChEeSe_mAn2

The email had no links. Just text explaining why my account was banned.

[QUOTE="the_ChEeSe_mAn2"]Are you sure you logged into legit battle.net site and not the one the email link provided?BrianB0422

The email had no links. Just text explaining why my account was banned.

Are you sure you logged into legit battle.net site and not the one the email link provided?the_ChEeSe_mAn2

The email had no links. Just text explaining why my account was banned.

Yeah its legitimate. I went to battle.net and logged in and it said "account is banned". So basically just contact them, tell them whats up, and see if they can do anything?BrianB0422

yes

Blizzard has extremely good customer support. If you email them, plead your case, etc, they will fix your problem. They are not in the business of banning legitimate, honest players.

It will take you a few days, however, so be patient.

I also recommend getting the authenticator tool; my account was hacked three times before I got mine, so I decided to spend the 4.99 dollars and get it. My account is basically hack-proof now. And I got a cool pet lol.

[QUOTE="BrianB0422"]

I got an email about 2 months ago telling me that my WoW account had been banned for the use of a bot or something. I haven't played WoW since December and my account was closed for maybe 3 months by the time I got that email, so I'm guessing that someone hacked my account, but thats not really important to me.

My question is, is there a way to "un-ban" it and how complicated / time consuming of a process is it? I would like to play some WoW again but I don't really want to jump through a millionhoops just to do so.

DeViLzzz

celebrate that they banned you and are saving you money

I had to talk to blizzard a few times on the phone, they won't take your call if they are particularly busy. Just call early in the morning and you should get through, I'd say my average call took 20 minutes.

I get those spam emails all the time, too. Just disregard it.