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Negative Unit Balances for Fraudulent Activity [Merged Threads]
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This cheating aside, Kabam’s recent purchase T&Cs update was designed to prevent people from buying X amount of units then just refunding the purchase through Apple or the android store which was costing Kabam a lot of money. This has simply been applied to the accounts in question who have been gifted what Kabam perceive to be obscene amounts of unit based gifts, presumably they’ve only really looked at the top 1% and I dare say they checked where the Ciclops accounts were sending their GGC too.
So, if you has -5000 in units, and you were buying 3100 credits for $99.99, you would need to buy two credit packs. That would be a total of 6200 credits which is greater than the negative balance. You would have 1200 credits. You get nothing for the first 5000 credits, as this is to reduce the negative balance.
The remaining 1200 credits will be changed to units. If the rate was 2 credits to 1 Unit, you would only get 600 units. If it was a 1 for 1 rate, you would get 1200 units for the 1200 credit surplus.
I hope that helps.
It's funny that people complaining about this are the ones getting caught. IMO, accounts should be getting banned, not receiving negative credits.
Kabam punished both sides. Bad unit accounts, and those that got gifts with those bad units.
I know someone that “bought” 50 ggc, from a person in the alliance he was in. Had no idea they were gaining units fraudulently (because there are people that farm legitimate units). And now this guy is on the hook for a negative balance that’ll cost him $300+ to get back in good standings.
In the end I have no real feelings towards this as it’ll never effect me. But I can understand some frustration from those that had no legitimate reason to suspect someone gained units in a fraudulent way and were punished by receiving gifts from them. Also shouldn’t buy anything from anyone like this.
And they basically ignored their own toc and not terminated their acc further down it also says they player person should be help responsible and pay back such currencies
Do you th8nk they’ll spend hundreds to get their accs back they’ll just buy another acc on the cheap with same or not stronger champions with more content done
Don’t think many stronger accounts exist for the main offenders
The actions we take are done with the information that we receive from these stores.
I know there is a lot of Misinformation flying around about Contest Credits work, and how the Players that received these lately were determined to get them.
We cannot discuss the ways in which we detect this behaviour, or the actions taken themselves. I suggest taking a look at this post again if you want more information: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/145848/policy-change-for-refunds
I want to make very clear though, we are not making any "extra money" off of these Players. We are not double dipping, because we did not receive any payments for this fraudulent behaviour to begin with. We are also not able to contact authorities over these, as we are not processing payments, and take actions based on the information that we receive from our Store Partners.