Unit fraudsters
Dave_81
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Kabam why are you only temp banning unit fraudsters and not permanently banning these scumbags? Also surely you have to contact local authorities to inform them of such illegal activities taking place, or does a company like kabam have zero morals and only worry about where the next bit of income is coming from
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Their accounts should be banned and deleted. This is not a Terms of Service breach that should get some temporary ban, real-world fraud was committed by someone in the purchase of these funds. This is an actual crime, not a gaming cheat code!
Whilst you will say you cannot talk about individual cases, a number of them are Youtubers who have admitted what they have done. When they are back playing it will be a complete joke. Not only that they keep all the assets and prizes they gained using these fraudulently claimed units, but the fact that they are back at all will demonstrate how wrong Kabam’s moral compass truly is.
I've played fairly for both season and can barely reach my second r5 AFTER I 100% the next EQ (**** war crystal luck but still).
What point is there for any of us to play fairly if the cheaters get better rewards AND they get to keep them when they're caught? Why shouldn't we all cheat, wait for our 1 week ban to take a vacation or something and then come back to the rewards we don't deserve?
Makes ZERO sense.
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As far as I'm aware (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong) if you are paying other players to send you gifts that is a violation of the TOS..
I think I seen kabam Mike put out something about it awhile ago (but as I said I could be wrong)
These unit buyers that were caught saying now dont do it. I regret it. It wasnt really me. I am stressed in high tier alliances. Whatever you knew exactly what you were doing and you still be doing it if u didnt get caught
No more 7 day bans for mods and shady purchases. Many think ok i can do this until i am caught because i get a free pass and a 7 day vacation in return
I don't know about gifting but the unit fraud is different. Someone logs into your account and loads units on to your account. They do so by either credit card fraud or by cloning other people's phones and billing units to that number. Either way it's fraud and someone else is paying for it. I was very disappointed in a YouTuber taking part of this and his attitude towards his theft.
These same YouTuber complain about alliances cheating and colluding in AW, but they go out and get fraudulent units. Hypocrites.
You either ban them all permanently or none of them permanently, it should be the former. Fair alliances losing out to pilots, to fraudulent units, to 2* Wars, and what happens? Not a thing because they’re all being sheltered and protected out of sheer greed.
people buy reduced price units from other people that are obtaining iTunes and Google play gift cards via credit card fraud.
The problem is that, as I understand the problem, Kabam wasn't defrauded. They were paid for the units delivered to the account, and I don't believe they have the information to prove anything weird happened. App stores like Apple and Google don't even give them detailed purchase information like what credit cards or other payment sources were used, I don't believe, because of privacy issues.
It is important to remember that in a mechanical sense, we don't buy units from Kabam. We buy them from Apple or Google who actually run the purchasing systems (that's also why Kabam has nothing to do with foreign currency conversions: Apple and Google control those). Kabam is a sort of wholesale supplier of units, and Apple and Google are the retailers. These unit fraud schemes defraud Apple and Google, by generally stealing from other people to pay those companies, but Kabam itself is not a party to those transactions.
In fact, I'm not sure about Google Play, but I believe Apple's developer rules are such that Kabam can't remove units from a player's account that Kabam itself was paid for. There are strict rules enforced by Apple about how an app vendor can manage in-game virtual currencies. For example, virtual currency cannot expire, and virtual currency cannot be gifted from player to player. They probably also cannot arbitrarily delete units either even if they suspect a problem.
Who?
Same!!! Lemme finish all content for a 7day ban? I'll take that!!!
See what they say.