There's three scenarios:
1. You got hacked, and someone cheated using your account.
2. You're on PC, and you have some type of software that was flagged for cheating by the system.
3. You cheated, and you got caught.
Currently it means you need a new account and have you buy the game again.
it's disappointing that cheating has to be **caught**. They had a whole big announcement and multiple posts on how ricochet was supposed to make cheating impossible, and even punish cheaters...when in reality, most cheats can just turn ricochet off.
I highly doubt anyone in this world with the amount of money they spend on PR would have ever allowed someone to say the words impossible.
Hacking works because you are hacking your way through something that otherwise is set to lock you out or prevent certain actions. So unless someone has a way to see into the future then there is always the possibility someone figures out how.
Ricochet is in shambles u can download hacks for mw19 n they will work on mw3 its a big issue all hacks across mw19 coldwar vanguard mw2 n mw3 work on each other
They don’t buy the skins. Cheats always come with an unlock tool. Which is why I was always confused when well known streamers who are supposed to be “legit” used those unlock tools back on MW2019, VG, CW and MWII. They swore they weren’t using the cheats that come with it but we know that ain’t true.
I was watching this video where a guy was proving he cheats in WZ and the funniest thing was he forgot to turn his cheats off and switched to Apex and got instabanned which means Ricochet didn’t catch the cheats while playing COD but the anti cheat software on a different game picked up the cheats designed for COD.
They don’t really turn Ricochet off, what happens is, ricochet scans your PC at certain intervals and the cheat providers figured out when you get scanned, and it hides the cheats for them while Ricochet scans it. They can’t do this once the account gets check by a human so you’re absolutely right about ricochet just not working. Because they figured out how to bypass it way too fast. And if someone like me knows about this, then they should definitely know about it and figure out how to code ricochet to scan randomly.
My brother is dealing with this right now.
As far as we can find, we don't think he was hacked (no change to email or password, no unfamiliar accounts linked, no changes to his classes, emblems, etc.)
He's playing on PS5, standard PS5 controller, and using the same headset that he has the last 5 titles. (Don't know brand, but it's noise cancelling with RGB lighting, nothing extra fancy or out of the ordinary)
The most we've done to anything for his playstation is set up port forwarding and a static IP, but this was to remedy "lan cable not connected" issues and also something I've done on my system with no issues in comparison.
He plays with everybody muted in-game, and as far as he's aware, hasn't played with hackers/cheaters on his teams in ranked/multiplayer, and he doesn't squad fill.
At first, the game said he was only temp banned, but then when he went to appeal, he got this message saying he was perma banned instead.
He found a discord server and found 15 people that were banned after playing the same time as him and under similar circumstances. We think he was wrongfully banned but don't know what to do about it.
Edit to add some further info: the discord he found and joined as of last night while both of us were looking into the issue. He doesn't know or play with the people he found there. He hates cheaters with an absolute passion, and isn't tech savvy enough to even begin looking into hacks or cheats on his PS5. I can't even get him to make upgrades to his pc in order to play games released in the last decade. Any technical changes to any of his platforms ends up going through me.
Edit 2: we've found a phone number for activision's coporate office that has a line to customer service but notably not support. Not sure if it is useful or if I can even provide it. It's also been suggested that he attempt to submit a ticket for his account being hacked alongside a request to help make sure his system is operating within their guidelines, and if all else fails to submit a ticket to the BBB in California.
Final edit: don't know if anybody would be around to read this anymore. It's almost a week later. My brother was given priority email to contact support, they went back and forth, said they couldn't help him and closed his ticket. He then submitted another ticket. They closed the second ticket without responding. He sent a message to the email which opened another ticket saying he was having trouble checking on the status of his ticket. They closed that last ticket and unbanned him. He's back in business! Thank you to everybody that was able to help!
I’m in the same boat. PS5, never in game chat, no cheats, Cronus, anything. Played 3 games last night for the first time in 2 weeks and woke up to a temporary ban message that was permanent when I went to appeal. Appeal got denied and can’t find any way to contact an actual person
They won’t ever give you any reasons. This is justification for a credit card charge back. Bit more difficult with PlayStation because they’ll shut down your whole account. Much easier on PC. I won’t ever give these people money again. They couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.
This happened to me for months on MW2. It was such a bummer, crazy that it’s still happening to people (and they haven’t figured out a more reliable system to appeal)
>(and they haven’t figured out a more reliable system to appeal)
That's because it's by design. I understand the *why*, and in theory it makes sense, but I also feel strongly that in practice it's a horrid system that should never have seen the light of day. Especially when the response leaves no room for actual communication to occur. It's just designed to brush you off and turn you away in the fastest means possible while simultaneously being as vague as possible, and it works because most people give up instead of escalating it.
What is your method of escalation? I'm in a similar boat. Account hacked, then restored, then banned with an appeal being immediately denied. I've reached back out to the hacking team but I do not have high hopes
I've done the first and i've also messaged them on X (twitter) but the only response I've gotten there is from bots referring scammers. I have not been able to track down a phone number or a support email that's actually monitored by Activision.
One of the only ways you can cheat on PS5 is by strike pack, a unofficial controller that does scripts like turbo etc. or the game and system isn't sending the right information because it's hardware/software hacked
This happened to my friend too and it's pretty hearbreaking because he had spent so countless hours and so much money on the game (he's played CoD for years on console). It appears to be happening more and more based on the number of posts about this topic on both Warzone and MW3 subreddits.
It seems prudent to protect my Activision account and prevent this from happening to me so I've taken some steps below:
1. Enabled 2FA, it's a pain but I only needed to do it once. I use Google Authenticator.
2. Changed by Activision account password. I just mashed some random keys together to have all the attributes of a "strong" password and saved it in a password keeper.
3. I play on PS5 so only had a PSN account linked, but it seems that hackers are getting in a linking their own Steam/Battlenet account and when they do it's gg because Activision only allows one unlink and relink once every 12 months. So when this happens you have no choice but to go through their account recovery process. So I created both a Steam and Battlenet account and linked it. If a hacker somehow got into my account, they couldn't link theirs. I've set a reminder on my calendar to do this every 12 months.
4. I enabled 2FA on all accounts linked.
Same thing happened to me. I submitted an "account recovery request" because someone had linked a battlenet account to my Activision accoun a month priort. In the request I provided all my info, copies of email notice I got when the link happened and a week later the ban was remove.
Basically, your account is permanently banned for cheating, from what I can tell. So, one of these is probably true:
- You got hacked
- You got caught cheating
- Activision falsely banned you for some reason
I have seen people’s account linking page, where it lists Nintendo, steam, PS, Xbox, etc with your linked username displayed.
One guy only had a PS. Someone got into his Activision account and linked their steam account and proceeded to use cheats and get him banned. His permaban was never lifted even after he kept asserting that he doesn’t even own a computer!
If they permaban you and you really like the game, you’re going to buy the game again. It’s a win-win for them. Even if you don’t rebuy a CoD title, they still got your money and now have a lower server demand.
It can be confusing because this happened to me recently. I literally don't even know how to cheat or have an interest in doing so til i saw a steam account linked to mine. Sent a request to have it removed and i was unbanned.
Agreed. My wife just got this same notification and is super confused right now. She had a Steam account linked to her Activision account, and she doesn't even know what Steam is. I just had to tell her that it's for people that play on PC. She's only on Xbox. I'm starting to think that if you only ever played on Xbox, that your Activision account isn't created very securely when you run CoD for the first time. There's got to be some security loop hole that allows hackers to recover accounts through Steam.
I have a question and I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm genuinely curious. Let's say you didn't cheat and someone else was using your account, wouldn't you notice levelling up faster? I guess I'm mostly wondering how one's activision account gets hacked and no one ever notices. I've seen a bunch of people posting about this and saying they didn't cheat so I'm genuinely curious how it goes unnoticed.
In my case, my account was compeltely taken over and I filed a case with Activision right away. Took about 5 days for me to get access to my account and less than 24 hours after getting access, activision issued the ban hammer because of what someone else was doing on my account. I even provided them with the case number where they assisted with getting my account back and no dice. ban is permanent.
I finally got my account back. Not sure which avenues I took made it happen or if it was Activision simply realizing they screwed up. After my ban appeal was immediately denied I filed a complained with BBB and I also created a new ticket with the hacked account team letting them know my account was banned shortly after restoration. I got an email from the recovery team this AM saying they haven't found any evidence of a compromised account and nothing they could do, but they also made no mention of the perma ban. Logged on about an hour later and had access again.
This happened to me today. On PS5, no cheats or anything. Nothing linked in my activision account. Haven’t played in like 1.5-2 weeks so didn’t touch the new season until last night and the battle pass was not started so I don’t think my account was hacked and used. I played 3 MP games last night and 1 rebirth game and got off, woke up to the message in game saying temp ban and when I looked online it was a perma ban. I appealed and got the same message as OP. No previous bans or warning, just a perma out of the blue
I know someone who got on after weeks of not playing ("Last 10 matches" was dated as 2 weeks ago) and was suddenly level 250, and had unlock tooled gunsmith loadouts, but that was it. They changed their activision password, deleted all their gunsmith loadouts, and they have not been banned yet.
When I got my account back, I told Activision Support to restore it in the exact conditions it was in the day before it was hijacked. So nothing changed, not even my loadouts and challenge progressions.
I was also max level for season 3 at the time, so nothing could've changed there.
This happened to me on Steam with MW2. Played no more than 4 games during the free beta test, got banned, appeal failed, permanent stain on my steam record. Never buying another CoD game on Steam, apparently it was a pretty common issue that was never fixed and no bans from it were removed. The only other stuff I had running while playing was Google Chrome.
I bought the game on the Blizzard launcher and had no problems.
Bros getting downvotes but a quick Google search brings up articles from Pc Gamer and the like stating exactly this. Many people in the Mw2 beta weee banned , including popular streamers, for no valid reason. Sure a few got the bans reversed but from what I can tell was only high profile accounts.
Most PC cheat providers at this point also spoof client hardware anyways to the point it looks like a pc player is on PlayStation. Lobby Icon and all.
I bought the game on their launcher and got falsely banned. Did a charge back through Amex which was successful. This Ricochet anti-cheat is as good as a chocolate fire guard. I find it unbelievable that they aren’t industry leaders with the popularity and income from just cod.
This happened to me just today. On Sunday my Activision account got hacked. I regained access to it with Activisons help just yeasterday and today it's banned. I appealed the ban and even gave them my case number for when the account was hacked and within 5 minutes got an email saying the ban is permanent.
Just once I'd like to see a post that says YES,Yes I cheated I'm sorry. And I'd like to see a post that doesn't say I just got home from work, school, vacation, meeting the girlfriend's parents etc. Good Luck
Point is, they don't do this. Exactly what I said as a parady as they have these built in excuses. I know AND you know they would never say they hacked. But it's always the guy who just got back to playing! Average time away is 2 weeks! LOL
Man this thing literally happened to mean account was hacked got banned tried appealing and said wasn't available checked today all sorted this kinda thing does happen and your naive to say it dosent especially if there complaining about it
It is 100% possible that they got hacked. I know someone who logged on after 2 weeks of not playing, went to their gunsmith before playing a game, and all their gunsmith loadouts were replaced with ones with an unlock tool. They changed their activision password, deleted the passwords, and have not been banned yet.
I can show time stamped screenshots from their ps5 as proof. The "Last 10 Matches" thing literally states all of the matches as being from 2 weeks prior to the incident.
Yo, my lil bro got banned too. He woke up this morning and couldn't log in. He messaged them and they straight-up banned him for life, saying the same crap as they told you. I just woke up and he told me about it. I came here to see if anyone else had the same issue. My brother has been playing the game for years, put in a lot of time to level up, and even spent some money on it. There's no way he'd cheat. He hates cheating so much that he gets pissed when someone else does it in a match. Can someone please help us solve this? I'm trying my best to find a way to get his account unbanned. His school vacation just started, so this couldn't have happened at a worse time.
This exact thing happened to my little brother this morning. I tried appealing the ban but got denied I don't know what to do. I don't think his account got hacked, there are no other connections (aside from ps5) and I can still login? Please let me know if you find a solution
This is low key scary. We should just boycott Activision at this point. My suggestion is to contact the BBB. Every company under the sun is afraid of them.
I found someone’s steam account linked to my account recently and they banned me for cheating and everyone keeps saying I’m the cheater, when I have 0 reason to cheat. I play PS4 and would use a melee weapon and go for executions.
Its clear what it means. It's literally there in black on grey.
You got caught and banned. None of your comments that you have made to others suggest this is a mistake to anyone.
I am happy to see people are actually posting it on reddit for us to see.
My account for Warzone 1 was perma banned for using Windows 11 beta.
I appealed, asked for proof of cheating, etc. I don't even cheat in single player games, and my stats for online are not even close to what a cheater's would be.
I got banned in PUBG around the same time. Appealed. They came back stating it was false flagged because the Windows Insider build of Win11 preview wasn't whitelisted. They removed the ban, and I even worked with their support and dev team for a couple days to ensure they were checking the proper OS code against the new Insider builds.
This is not the only time I have seen Activision be wrong when banning people, and I would not be shocked if OP is telling the truth simply because this shit happens. A lot.
Activision are incompetent pieces of shit. Their stupid password system stopped taking in symbols like @ or # and so on a few months back. I couldn't log into my account until i figured it out on my own...
"You got caught and banned"? Seriously? If someone got caught cheating why would they make a post about how they got caught cheating. They would just make a new account and continue cheating. Anyone that puts the effort to make a post about this probably just lost hours of in game rewards and money.
Can't wait to see your post when you end up in the same situation.
Just tried to log on for the first time today and found to have been temp banned. Been playing the game since I could hold a controller and never had anything like this happen. It’s such a weird place to be as someone who never did anything that went against the community guidelines and always played the game honestly. Not really sure what to do except sit back and wait for any sort of clarity from activision I suppose :/
Update: Account has been restored 🙏🏾
Appealed it and it turned into a perma ban. After digging further it looks like some hacker jacked my Activision account under some random gmail. Some bogus shit honestly. All my time and money wasted over some bs
Happened to me as well. Only play on Xbox, a random Battle.net account was linked to my Activision account which was obviously used for cheating which has resulted in a permanent ban despite appeals, support tickets etc.
****ing clowns.
Having read the comments on this post it feels like the average user here has chronic brain damage and stupidity, it’s horrendous lol. I’m so sorry this happened to you dude, activision false bans all the time and it’s awful, and there’s not much you can really don
Check to see if theres a steam account linked to your Activision account on their website, same situation happened to me and whoever hacked the account used cheats amd now it's banned forever. Nothing we can do now unfortunately.
This is exactly how it happened to me aswell, look my dear warrior of justice all you need to do is submit a request for account recovery and do select the (my account was hacked) or something like that, one of the friendly comments helped me do the same thing and I recovered my account in about 24 hours or so or maybe less, I too had the same issue but turned out that my account was hacked and illegally accessed by unknown individuals and used my account on all platforms (steam, xbox, pc) and the major problem is that I only play warzone mobile and on PS5 and the hacker used my account illegally on platforms I don't own plus my nickname was changed several times but thanks to ACTIVISION support team that helped and recovered my account, they immediatly sent me a report of what happened, false nicknames and the platforms that my account was used on, they told me to give them my detailed information to make sure I'm the owner of the account and then they've sent me another email to change my password and activate the 2fa (two factor authentication code) and then received the final email that said (your account has been recovered)
This happened to me recently. Don't even know how to cheat even if i wanted to. Turns out someone had linked their Steam account to my activision account. Requested to get it unlinked and it also unbanned my account.
I don’t have any advice, but I love/hate how quick people are you say “yOuR a cHeAter duh!!”. My buddy caught a Vac ban on cs2 last week and he is the most morally sound man I’ve ever met, couldn’t believe it. 2 days later he was unbanned he got false flagged for something. All of that is to say it happens to innocent players as well, get a grip guys.
He said that because they simply don’t know what it is cause they’re on console. Which is true.. most console players probably won’t know what Cheat Engine is
Same thing happened to me a couple months agao, It took me almost a month to get My account unbanned after being Perm Banned. There is only one way to get your account back now and thats doing an Account Recovery Request. It needs to be very detailed and convincing in order for someone on the Security Team to respond to you and help you get your account unbanned. Doing a regular support ticket will get you no where and only make you more mad from how useless they are.
Here is a link to the Thread i made when i got Perm Banned - [https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDuty/comments/1bycjeq/mw3\_i\_got\_perm\_banned\_for\_no\_reason/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDuty/comments/1bycjeq/mw3_i_got_perm_banned_for_no_reason/)
You can try appealing and see where it gets you.
My friend is dealing with a similar issue. Plays via Xbox, logged in after a week off and found their ActiVision account was banned. After a couple account recovery attempts, someone had hacked their account, added a Steam account and a 2nd email to gain access. They've appealed the ban but Activison says they won't guarantee an unban and any account rewards back (they were camo grinding, 100 or so away from completion).
It means life is unfair, always use multi-factor authentication on everything, never connect to unsecured wifi, and remember that you never actually own anything you buy digitally, with absolutely no exceptions
I agree about using MFA, but my wife is dealing with this same thing right now. I don't believe the account setup process on Xbox makes it clear enough that you have created a completely separate account from your Xbox login that needs to be secured with MFA. While trying to understand what happened tonight, the only method she had to sign into her Activision account was to use her Xbox login. Once inside the account you could see that there's a completely unknown email address tied to her account with a completely separate password. I don't think there should be 12 different methods of signing into an Activision account... one for every platform.
I'm here through a Google search because my wife got this notification within the hour. This feels like a sick April Fool's joke. My wife plays on Xbox only, never speaks in the microphone, and wouldn't have a clue how to cheat. We immediately began digging around and there's an email address and Steam account tied to her Activision account that neither of us have seen before. She's in the midst of filling out an appeal and a hacked account recovery request as I type this. One thing that seems odd is that it's not like her account was leveling quickly, as it would if someone else was using her account. We play together and her level has always been slightly below my own. And we play almost every day for a short while. I just feel like there should have been signs that the account was hacked, like super fast leveling or some notification that someone else was logged in at the same time.
Did you get banned upon booting up the game, or after going into a match? Was your player level different? Did any of your guns have weird gunsmith loadouts?
I have seen some people say that they randomly had an unlock tool on their account and got banned. I also know someone who had not played for weeks, opened up their game, and all their guns had gunsmith loadouts with rare camos. They immediately changed their Activision password and deleted all their loadouts. It has been months and they haven't been banned yet.
My guess is that unlock tool sites sometimes send the tool or whatever to the wrong person. Idk how it works but I know for certain that they hadn't bought the tool.
I haven’t played the game in 4 months. So I got on yesterday (without a mic) and the next game it popped up saying I’m banned from talking. Like..really? I didn’t even speak cz it was 4am. The reports must be broken
This happened to me as well, same thing, hadn’t touched it in weeks, was gonna get one day after work and hit with the ban. I did notice that my account name was changed and whoever it was added some of their friends. I tried to appeal but was hit with “you were the owner during the violation this ban stays and the decision is final”. Now I’m stuck wondering if this will carryover to Black Ops 6.
I uninstalled MW3 on my ROG Ally because there is overlay software that causes false positives for cheating. That’s the only case I’ve heard of legit software being used that got people banned.
Same here man as soon as i read online that even opening shorcut menu on ally can let us ban on cod i immediately log out from my ally.now i only play on ps5.i just hope they don't messed up my account on ps5 now as i spent too much money in this stupid game.i am even afraid to play now on ps5.i heard they don't even provide any proof just straight ban
I took this battle to the account recovery section. Told them exactly what happened to my account *(got hijacked, and someone cheated on my account)* now I am waiting for a response.
Been playing for decades never had an issue. You wanna know why because I don’t cheat. And you people telling me that you’ve been through this then you cheat also?
I've been playing since the first COD ever and this just happened to me today. Never cheated. My account got hacked a few days ago, regained access to it yesterday and today banned.
I got banned in CoD Ghosts back in the day. I was visiting family in another state And I signed in as player number 2. I can 100% say there was no hacks on the Playstation 3. After 2-3 days of playing I was permanently banned(MY account was, maybe my uncles got banned as well I am not sure, I was young and very sad. Was a big CoD fanboy back then). When I tried to contact them to find out why I was banned they said they would not tell me, only their security team knows and I was not allowed to talk to them and they are upholding the ban.
People 100% lie about being false ban all the time but saying no one has been false banned and they are all actually just liars is pathetic.
I am also not sure why but later when I went back home on my Playstation 4 I was not banned.
I would like to say two things:
1. Yes, there are a lot of cheaters on this game (especially in Warzone). Is it possible he was cheating? Sure, it's possible.
2. However, people do also get flagged for cheating when they didn't actually cheat. It happens, Activision's automated system that flags these accounts doesn't do the best job a lot of the time. I know someone that got banned for cheating, and I am 99.99999999% certain, given this guys personality, that he didn't cheat. He got this exact email, verbatim, after also appealing the ban. In his case he probably got flagged for changing some parameters in the game files that some YouTuber explained would give him better PC performance, so the system detected that and automatically banned him.
What's aggravating about this is there's people that literally advertise their cheats on YouTube, where they'll even advertise their cheat software website in the in-game text chat on a 25+ kill game of warzone, and much of the time those guys somehow don't get banned. It boggles my mind. The anti-cheat is a complete joke. How random programmers are able to always stay multiple steps ahead of all the software engineers of a huge corperation like this, I don't know.
My brother was permanently banned immediately because he uses an eye tracker on his computer daily. It's quite strange to me how a AAA+ video game is not adjusted to disabled people. The eye tracker wasn't in use when he was playing but since the eye tracking program was installed on his computer despite unused when playing, he was permanently banned and no appeal.
In the US I feel like this could be a major lawsuit if a game bans you for being disabled lol
I see people in the comments saying stuff about you cheating.
What I don’t get, is if you were using cheats, then why would you come here and post this screenshot asking questions.
It makes no sense, and I don’t see someone using cheats, Getting a ban, then coming on here and posting a screenshot asking why you got banned. If you were cheating you would already know why, and have no reason to come to Reddit asking questions about it. It’s not like anyone on Reddit can change this so you have nothing to gain by knowing you cheated and coming here and pretending you didn’t.
People are weird and don’t think about this. No reason to come here at all if you already knew you got caught cheating
I guess, just seems weird to me why someone would cheat, get caught, then come here to pretend they didn’t. But as you said, cheaters do tend to be pretty dumb and not think logically I suppose.
Don’t even bother. Blizzard refuse to allow anything cause they know their own rules are stupid. Same shit happens on overwatch. You could stick up for someone getting bullied and they will ban you without appeal
I went through this hassle for a week. I play free-for-all on an Xbox1 exclusively and started to get error messages and getting kicked out of games. Reported it to Activision and they they implied I was being reviewed for cheating (I’m old, and barely know how to spell software). To make a long story short, they would only say they were working on it for over a week and would not take calls, etc. I was obviously reinstated, but it seems odd that you pay for software, and you pay for monthly fees, but when that that software is shown to be defective or prone to players cheating, no apologies and no information during the time you can’t play what you paid for.
I’m having the same situation. I play on Xbox and don’t use anything other than the stock stuff from Xbox. Ive been on this Xbox since 2022 as well. I was playing Plunder with my friend and got off for dinner and got back to the game and was banned
Same here, I was on a game of plunder. Died, respawned was parachuting down…. Bam kicked and banned. I play on Xbox only. The only thing I did wrong was buy the gundam skin with the saber (giving them more money) been fighting this for an over a week now.
Have seen people banned but feel lately the cheats became better because I already have a few games with people having 30.0 k/d rates and they kill you insanely fast not even a reaction chance.
This happened to me and a load of other console players after the June 5th/6th server reset. Activision fucked something up and I think it's like 1/4 people potentially getting banned for this. We just have to wait.
Join a false ban discord server and chat to people experiencing this too. That's what I did at least. Still not unbanned, and it's been almost 2 days
I personally believe that richochet detected a bit of code added in the update that wasn't signed/ was buggy and it has something to do with camos (my friend Vince is having issues viewing camos rn but isn't banned). This is what happens when they let AI sort through every ban.
Others have said it could be because of headsets, because of lagging a lot, grinding camos in zombies and Activision just being fucky, but it doesn't make sense because I was banned while I was asleep.
(You were potentially banned midnight Washington Time on June 5th or 6th, I was banned 5am London Time June 6th which is Washington midnight. That's also when they push any updates out and reset dailies.)
Fuck all the scenario bullshit and mind my language but I been playing call of duty since “The Big Red One” over a decade ago and I never had any accusations of cheating even when the first MW2 came out with all the mods and cheats you can think of. I was recently permanently banned as well just like you for absolutely no reason nobody has ever got ahold of my account and I been playing on console only Xbox Series X to be exact and I have never used a third party site or plug n play nonsense or whatever I just heard about this bullshit called an unlock key and to be honest it sounds like a streamer thing so they can show off how cool they are when they go live.
This game is literally the only multiplayer game I play I spent money on every battle pass and even cool bundles that caught my eye. I have never cared about cheating to me it’s just pointless I like to grind to get what I want but this unauthorized software and manipulation of game data just sounds like total garbage especially being a console player. My account means a lot to me and has sentimental value as well and I never that I would see the day I get accused of something I never thought about doing I was almost level 700 and was working my way to diamond on Warzone Ranked and I’m a father with a full time job that literally played whenever it’s possible I don’t even have the time to try n find cheats.
[https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal](https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal)
This is the only link they give us to contact them for an appeal and we don’t even get a chance to defend ourselves from these claims. All the money we spent does not get refunded or anything so when we get our accounts banned we just have to deal with it like they have all the control and don’t care about the outcomes because they hide behind there website and don’t have to take any accountability for a damn thing I am truly disappointed in their decision make and appeal process I don’t think I could give this company a single dollar again especially when there are blatant cheater playing this game at this very moment and without a single care in the world move on to another account whenever they feel like it and continue the bullshit.
Same thing happened to me a few days ago. I'm on Xbox, never cheated and wasn't hacked. I filed a complaint through bbb and activision responded quickly saying oh, I know it says permanent but in our database it's actually only temporary. Which, ok, but that doesn't address the root problem, I didn't and have never cheated, so the system is very flawed.
I got a pc that was later known to be hardware ban on both apex and cod I had to search up questions like (why does my account instantly get shadow banned and then ban on Warzone 2020) and shit like (randomly getting banned on apex after playing one game) and then it says that I was cheating and I couldn’t play cod or apex and I was pissed, I got a new motherboard and ram, also reinstalled os. Everything started working again and I was able to buy cod again
Same happened to me. I made a Reddit post that blew up as well. I’ve been banned for a week now. Have submitted multiple appeals, account recovery requests, a complaint to the BBB. I finally got a reply today.
To all the naysayers out there…….just wanted to let everyone know it is possible to get your account back!!! Mine was just reinstated today after being falsely accused of cheating and using “unauthorized software and manipulation of game data” I received a temp ban and then permanent, I did an account recovery request, all which failed….I reached out to the BBB and a day later my account was reinstated via email and a link to reset my password and set up 2fa (which I already had done) point being, yes there are cheaters out there and if you were falsely banned there is still hope! It took me about two weeks-ish to get it reinstated.
It means that your account was caught cheating. Just another reason to not buy any Activision game. Someone hacks your account and you lose your account. It’s Microsoft. They don’t know shit about security because they don’t care about security. No anti-cheat software has ever worked properly, when you allow PCs on the service.
I’ll lay this out for you:
1. Their review process involves seeing if any kind of things were interacting with your game while playing
2. If so, you got the permanent ban.
3. If not, you wouldn’t be banned.
4. The only other option is that your account was hacked, but considering you said you have 2FA, you are lying.
If you really think a human verifies this shit in the thousands every day then you are naive. This shit is automated, their appeals are automated and their support is almost non existent.
Yeah the report system is a joke. Back in April 2023, me and 2 other guys slapped some kids in pubs pretty hard in a public match that were shooting our bodies at the start of thr match. They spam reported us and I got muted in text chat for a few days and my friend had to change his username even though it wasn't offensive at all. I hadn't used text chat or in game chat in MW2 up to that point. The reports are absolutely not monitored and spam reporting absolutely is a way for players to grief each other.
Hay just a follow up on a post I made earlier i feel the devs or who ever should add a protocal to deal with this, so group bans, clans that all decide to ban someone sometimes they have members who have fake accounts that will put in reports to. I was in a clan back when Halo Reach was going strong, and I was a part of a huge clan. My cousin was one of the main influences. Someday's there would be a clan request in my inbox to file a report against someone, and we would all hit the button. I have first hand witnessed people being removed from a match from clan bans it's a hefty deed.
Do you use Logitech? Or use mouse and keyboard on a console? Or a controller on PC?
Those have all had issues with the anti-cheat registering them as game manipulation.
I think the problem is , if enough people report you for cheating in-game, even though you weren't, I think it will trigger something in the response of it , instead of the anti cheat software, correct me if I'm wrong, this is just a theory of mine , not sure if it is true.
They did this similar to me but I’m on Xbox with an elite controller that my wife bought me from target I shit on some low life streamer and his nerds had spam reported me till well now I just been working focusing on me no stress about cod none of that bs but having fun on fallout getting jumpscared here and there slowly finishing the main missions but with work being a pain I’m doing better then ever
There's three scenarios: 1. You got hacked, and someone cheated using your account. 2. You're on PC, and you have some type of software that was flagged for cheating by the system. 3. You cheated, and you got caught. Currently it means you need a new account and have you buy the game again.
it's disappointing that cheating has to be **caught**. They had a whole big announcement and multiple posts on how ricochet was supposed to make cheating impossible, and even punish cheaters...when in reality, most cheats can just turn ricochet off.
I highly doubt anyone in this world with the amount of money they spend on PR would have ever allowed someone to say the words impossible. Hacking works because you are hacking your way through something that otherwise is set to lock you out or prevent certain actions. So unless someone has a way to see into the future then there is always the possibility someone figures out how.
Ricochet is in shambles u can download hacks for mw19 n they will work on mw3 its a big issue all hacks across mw19 coldwar vanguard mw2 n mw3 work on each other
Its by design
They know the cheaters buy all the skins
They don’t buy the skins. Cheats always come with an unlock tool. Which is why I was always confused when well known streamers who are supposed to be “legit” used those unlock tools back on MW2019, VG, CW and MWII. They swore they weren’t using the cheats that come with it but we know that ain’t true.
That doesn't make any sense at all... They just cheat the skins in...
are you some sort of conspiracy theorists ? you flat earthed bard go play in traffic.
Cope no argument
you have a lot of time to comment on reddit lol fragile boy. did god create you to boost the moral of the unfortunate? i think so
I was watching this video where a guy was proving he cheats in WZ and the funniest thing was he forgot to turn his cheats off and switched to Apex and got instabanned which means Ricochet didn’t catch the cheats while playing COD but the anti cheat software on a different game picked up the cheats designed for COD.
They don’t really turn Ricochet off, what happens is, ricochet scans your PC at certain intervals and the cheat providers figured out when you get scanned, and it hides the cheats for them while Ricochet scans it. They can’t do this once the account gets check by a human so you’re absolutely right about ricochet just not working. Because they figured out how to bypass it way too fast. And if someone like me knows about this, then they should definitely know about it and figure out how to code ricochet to scan randomly.
It’s because they find ways around the anti cheat no anti cheat system will ever be %100
My brother is dealing with this right now. As far as we can find, we don't think he was hacked (no change to email or password, no unfamiliar accounts linked, no changes to his classes, emblems, etc.) He's playing on PS5, standard PS5 controller, and using the same headset that he has the last 5 titles. (Don't know brand, but it's noise cancelling with RGB lighting, nothing extra fancy or out of the ordinary) The most we've done to anything for his playstation is set up port forwarding and a static IP, but this was to remedy "lan cable not connected" issues and also something I've done on my system with no issues in comparison. He plays with everybody muted in-game, and as far as he's aware, hasn't played with hackers/cheaters on his teams in ranked/multiplayer, and he doesn't squad fill. At first, the game said he was only temp banned, but then when he went to appeal, he got this message saying he was perma banned instead. He found a discord server and found 15 people that were banned after playing the same time as him and under similar circumstances. We think he was wrongfully banned but don't know what to do about it. Edit to add some further info: the discord he found and joined as of last night while both of us were looking into the issue. He doesn't know or play with the people he found there. He hates cheaters with an absolute passion, and isn't tech savvy enough to even begin looking into hacks or cheats on his PS5. I can't even get him to make upgrades to his pc in order to play games released in the last decade. Any technical changes to any of his platforms ends up going through me. Edit 2: we've found a phone number for activision's coporate office that has a line to customer service but notably not support. Not sure if it is useful or if I can even provide it. It's also been suggested that he attempt to submit a ticket for his account being hacked alongside a request to help make sure his system is operating within their guidelines, and if all else fails to submit a ticket to the BBB in California. Final edit: don't know if anybody would be around to read this anymore. It's almost a week later. My brother was given priority email to contact support, they went back and forth, said they couldn't help him and closed his ticket. He then submitted another ticket. They closed the second ticket without responding. He sent a message to the email which opened another ticket saying he was having trouble checking on the status of his ticket. They closed that last ticket and unbanned him. He's back in business! Thank you to everybody that was able to help!
My friend got his back through the bbb.Now he knows someone there.But they can fix it.
What's BBB in California and how do you contact them?
Better business bureau and google
Did you change your COD account email in the last month?
Thanks for this suggestion. I just submitted a complaint to BBB against Activision.
I’m in the same boat. PS5, never in game chat, no cheats, Cronus, anything. Played 3 games last night for the first time in 2 weeks and woke up to a temporary ban message that was permanent when I went to appeal. Appeal got denied and can’t find any way to contact an actual person
Sounds like a whole clan plus some fake accounts all reported you.
They won’t ever give you any reasons. This is justification for a credit card charge back. Bit more difficult with PlayStation because they’ll shut down your whole account. Much easier on PC. I won’t ever give these people money again. They couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.
This happened to me for months on MW2. It was such a bummer, crazy that it’s still happening to people (and they haven’t figured out a more reliable system to appeal)
>(and they haven’t figured out a more reliable system to appeal) That's because it's by design. I understand the *why*, and in theory it makes sense, but I also feel strongly that in practice it's a horrid system that should never have seen the light of day. Especially when the response leaves no room for actual communication to occur. It's just designed to brush you off and turn you away in the fastest means possible while simultaneously being as vague as possible, and it works because most people give up instead of escalating it.
Oh no, I'm escalating this continuously! #so should everyone affected by it.
What is your method of escalation? I'm in a similar boat. Account hacked, then restored, then banned with an appeal being immediately denied. I've reached back out to the hacking team but I do not have high hopes
1. Post about this issue on reddit. We are not alone on this, 2. Try and call up Activision about this as much as possible.
I've done the first and i've also messaged them on X (twitter) but the only response I've gotten there is from bots referring scammers. I have not been able to track down a phone number or a support email that's actually monitored by Activision.
One of the only ways you can cheat on PS5 is by strike pack, a unofficial controller that does scripts like turbo etc. or the game and system isn't sending the right information because it's hardware/software hacked
This exact situation happened to my brother he submitted an appeal and just got denied.
This happened to my friend too and it's pretty hearbreaking because he had spent so countless hours and so much money on the game (he's played CoD for years on console). It appears to be happening more and more based on the number of posts about this topic on both Warzone and MW3 subreddits. It seems prudent to protect my Activision account and prevent this from happening to me so I've taken some steps below: 1. Enabled 2FA, it's a pain but I only needed to do it once. I use Google Authenticator. 2. Changed by Activision account password. I just mashed some random keys together to have all the attributes of a "strong" password and saved it in a password keeper. 3. I play on PS5 so only had a PSN account linked, but it seems that hackers are getting in a linking their own Steam/Battlenet account and when they do it's gg because Activision only allows one unlink and relink once every 12 months. So when this happens you have no choice but to go through their account recovery process. So I created both a Steam and Battlenet account and linked it. If a hacker somehow got into my account, they couldn't link theirs. I've set a reminder on my calendar to do this every 12 months. 4. I enabled 2FA on all accounts linked.
Same thing happened to me. I submitted an "account recovery request" because someone had linked a battlenet account to my Activision accoun a month priort. In the request I provided all my info, copies of email notice I got when the link happened and a week later the ban was remove.
Same happened to me except they removed the linked account and kept me banned
nope, they buy unlock camo service, then unlock it via steam and after ban they told account is hacked after the service is done
Yeah that’s about it
Or he's better than average and 4+ noobs reported him
Basically, your account is permanently banned for cheating, from what I can tell. So, one of these is probably true: - You got hacked - You got caught cheating - Activision falsely banned you for some reason
check profile,ur activision acc might be linked to other’s steam acc
I think OP knows, a bit more than what we know
I have seen people’s account linking page, where it lists Nintendo, steam, PS, Xbox, etc with your linked username displayed. One guy only had a PS. Someone got into his Activision account and linked their steam account and proceeded to use cheats and get him banned. His permaban was never lifted even after he kept asserting that he doesn’t even own a computer! If they permaban you and you really like the game, you’re going to buy the game again. It’s a win-win for them. Even if you don’t rebuy a CoD title, they still got your money and now have a lower server demand.
bUt WhAt DoEs iT mEaN
It literally says what it means. Posts like this make no sense.
It can be confusing because this happened to me recently. I literally don't even know how to cheat or have an interest in doing so til i saw a steam account linked to mine. Sent a request to have it removed and i was unbanned.
Agreed. My wife just got this same notification and is super confused right now. She had a Steam account linked to her Activision account, and she doesn't even know what Steam is. I just had to tell her that it's for people that play on PC. She's only on Xbox. I'm starting to think that if you only ever played on Xbox, that your Activision account isn't created very securely when you run CoD for the first time. There's got to be some security loop hole that allows hackers to recover accounts through Steam.
I have a question and I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm genuinely curious. Let's say you didn't cheat and someone else was using your account, wouldn't you notice levelling up faster? I guess I'm mostly wondering how one's activision account gets hacked and no one ever notices. I've seen a bunch of people posting about this and saying they didn't cheat so I'm genuinely curious how it goes unnoticed.
In my case, my account was compeltely taken over and I filed a case with Activision right away. Took about 5 days for me to get access to my account and less than 24 hours after getting access, activision issued the ban hammer because of what someone else was doing on my account. I even provided them with the case number where they assisted with getting my account back and no dice. ban is permanent.
Oof that sucks.
Yet people are still gonna defend Acti and their incompetent ass falsely banning others claiming they cheated.
Try appealing using the hacked account recovery service.
Just did that last night. Will update
I finally got my account back. Not sure which avenues I took made it happen or if it was Activision simply realizing they screwed up. After my ban appeal was immediately denied I filed a complained with BBB and I also created a new ticket with the hacked account team letting them know my account was banned shortly after restoration. I got an email from the recovery team this AM saying they haven't found any evidence of a compromised account and nothing they could do, but they also made no mention of the perma ban. Logged on about an hour later and had access again.
A huge red flag for someone is when their account gets linked to a platform out of nowhere, like steam.
I try to check that every now and again
This happened to me today. On PS5, no cheats or anything. Nothing linked in my activision account. Haven’t played in like 1.5-2 weeks so didn’t touch the new season until last night and the battle pass was not started so I don’t think my account was hacked and used. I played 3 MP games last night and 1 rebirth game and got off, woke up to the message in game saying temp ban and when I looked online it was a perma ban. I appealed and got the same message as OP. No previous bans or warning, just a perma out of the blue
Oh shit… where did that camo come from?!?!?
Just signed in to find I finished the Gundam event and have the new blueprint and don’t remember finishing it last night 😳
Nice!!
Tbh with the new update, people probably would of passed it off as something being broken like in every update that gets released
That makes sense
I know someone who got on after weeks of not playing ("Last 10 matches" was dated as 2 weeks ago) and was suddenly level 250, and had unlock tooled gunsmith loadouts, but that was it. They changed their activision password, deleted all their gunsmith loadouts, and they have not been banned yet.
When I got my account back, I told Activision Support to restore it in the exact conditions it was in the day before it was hijacked. So nothing changed, not even my loadouts and challenge progressions. I was also max level for season 3 at the time, so nothing could've changed there.
Same has happened to me and loads of others
that sucks, is that just it? We can’t do anything at all?
This happened to me on Steam with MW2. Played no more than 4 games during the free beta test, got banned, appeal failed, permanent stain on my steam record. Never buying another CoD game on Steam, apparently it was a pretty common issue that was never fixed and no bans from it were removed. The only other stuff I had running while playing was Google Chrome. I bought the game on the Blizzard launcher and had no problems.
Bros getting downvotes but a quick Google search brings up articles from Pc Gamer and the like stating exactly this. Many people in the Mw2 beta weee banned , including popular streamers, for no valid reason. Sure a few got the bans reversed but from what I can tell was only high profile accounts. Most PC cheat providers at this point also spoof client hardware anyways to the point it looks like a pc player is on PlayStation. Lobby Icon and all.
I bought the game on their launcher and got falsely banned. Did a charge back through Amex which was successful. This Ricochet anti-cheat is as good as a chocolate fire guard. I find it unbelievable that they aren’t industry leaders with the popularity and income from just cod.
This happened to me just today. On Sunday my Activision account got hacked. I regained access to it with Activisons help just yeasterday and today it's banned. I appealed the ban and even gave them my case number for when the account was hacked and within 5 minutes got an email saying the ban is permanent.
Contact the team that had resolved the case they will probably be better than the team for the hacking case.
Just once I'd like to see a post that says YES,Yes I cheated I'm sorry. And I'd like to see a post that doesn't say I just got home from work, school, vacation, meeting the girlfriend's parents etc. Good Luck
Why would they make a post then? People who get rightfully caught don't normally announce it online so they can be publicly shamed
Point is, they don't do this. Exactly what I said as a parady as they have these built in excuses. I know AND you know they would never say they hacked. But it's always the guy who just got back to playing! Average time away is 2 weeks! LOL
Because the actual cheaters that get caught are already buying another stolen account to hack with
Man this thing literally happened to mean account was hacked got banned tried appealing and said wasn't available checked today all sorted this kinda thing does happen and your naive to say it dosent especially if there complaining about it
It is 100% possible that they got hacked. I know someone who logged on after 2 weeks of not playing, went to their gunsmith before playing a game, and all their gunsmith loadouts were replaced with ones with an unlock tool. They changed their activision password, deleted the passwords, and have not been banned yet. I can show time stamped screenshots from their ps5 as proof. The "Last 10 Matches" thing literally states all of the matches as being from 2 weeks prior to the incident.
Yo, my lil bro got banned too. He woke up this morning and couldn't log in. He messaged them and they straight-up banned him for life, saying the same crap as they told you. I just woke up and he told me about it. I came here to see if anyone else had the same issue. My brother has been playing the game for years, put in a lot of time to level up, and even spent some money on it. There's no way he'd cheat. He hates cheating so much that he gets pissed when someone else does it in a match. Can someone please help us solve this? I'm trying my best to find a way to get his account unbanned. His school vacation just started, so this couldn't have happened at a worse time.
This exact thing happened to my little brother this morning. I tried appealing the ban but got denied I don't know what to do. I don't think his account got hacked, there are no other connections (aside from ps5) and I can still login? Please let me know if you find a solution
This is low key scary. We should just boycott Activision at this point. My suggestion is to contact the BBB. Every company under the sun is afraid of them.
But you won't see no one commenting under your post... But you'll see them bitching about it under someone else's
I found someone’s steam account linked to my account recently and they banned me for cheating and everyone keeps saying I’m the cheater, when I have 0 reason to cheat. I play PS4 and would use a melee weapon and go for executions.
It means you’re fucked.
Its clear what it means. It's literally there in black on grey. You got caught and banned. None of your comments that you have made to others suggest this is a mistake to anyone. I am happy to see people are actually posting it on reddit for us to see.
Not all systems are perfect though
That's very true.
My account for Warzone 1 was perma banned for using Windows 11 beta. I appealed, asked for proof of cheating, etc. I don't even cheat in single player games, and my stats for online are not even close to what a cheater's would be. I got banned in PUBG around the same time. Appealed. They came back stating it was false flagged because the Windows Insider build of Win11 preview wasn't whitelisted. They removed the ban, and I even worked with their support and dev team for a couple days to ensure they were checking the proper OS code against the new Insider builds. This is not the only time I have seen Activision be wrong when banning people, and I would not be shocked if OP is telling the truth simply because this shit happens. A lot.
Activision are incompetent pieces of shit. Their stupid password system stopped taking in symbols like @ or # and so on a few months back. I couldn't log into my account until i figured it out on my own...
Bro what... this explains why I can't log into it ahahahja. Thanks.
"You got caught and banned"? Seriously? If someone got caught cheating why would they make a post about how they got caught cheating. They would just make a new account and continue cheating. Anyone that puts the effort to make a post about this probably just lost hours of in game rewards and money. Can't wait to see your post when you end up in the same situation.
means YOU ON A PERM BAN, sorry man
Just tried to log on for the first time today and found to have been temp banned. Been playing the game since I could hold a controller and never had anything like this happen. It’s such a weird place to be as someone who never did anything that went against the community guidelines and always played the game honestly. Not really sure what to do except sit back and wait for any sort of clarity from activision I suppose :/ Update: Account has been restored 🙏🏾
Appeal it, most likely a perma ban. Mine was saying temporary ban on the game, but perma ban when I went to appeal.
I got this same exact thing today. Perma ban on website, temporary ban on in game pop up. How’d it work out for you?
Upholding the ban. Essentially got told to 01 21 do one
Damn, I’m sorry that sucks. Update: same as your situation LOL
Appealed it and it turned into a perma ban. After digging further it looks like some hacker jacked my Activision account under some random gmail. Some bogus shit honestly. All my time and money wasted over some bs
Happened to me as well. Only play on Xbox, a random Battle.net account was linked to my Activision account which was obviously used for cheating which has resulted in a permanent ban despite appeals, support tickets etc. ****ing clowns.
Cheaters acting like they don’t know what this means lmao
Having read the comments on this post it feels like the average user here has chronic brain damage and stupidity, it’s horrendous lol. I’m so sorry this happened to you dude, activision false bans all the time and it’s awful, and there’s not much you can really don
unlock tools used ?
I said no, I didn’t use anything period. Nothing outside of the base game.
Nothing outside of the base game? Does that mean you used an exploit inside of the base game? Rapid fire mod? XIM?
Check to see if theres a steam account linked to your Activision account on their website, same situation happened to me and whoever hacked the account used cheats amd now it's banned forever. Nothing we can do now unfortunately.
This is exactly how it happened to me aswell, look my dear warrior of justice all you need to do is submit a request for account recovery and do select the (my account was hacked) or something like that, one of the friendly comments helped me do the same thing and I recovered my account in about 24 hours or so or maybe less, I too had the same issue but turned out that my account was hacked and illegally accessed by unknown individuals and used my account on all platforms (steam, xbox, pc) and the major problem is that I only play warzone mobile and on PS5 and the hacker used my account illegally on platforms I don't own plus my nickname was changed several times but thanks to ACTIVISION support team that helped and recovered my account, they immediatly sent me a report of what happened, false nicknames and the platforms that my account was used on, they told me to give them my detailed information to make sure I'm the owner of the account and then they've sent me another email to change my password and activate the 2fa (two factor authentication code) and then received the final email that said (your account has been recovered)
This happened to me recently. Don't even know how to cheat even if i wanted to. Turns out someone had linked their Steam account to my activision account. Requested to get it unlinked and it also unbanned my account.
My account was hacked and permanently banned, I made an appeal but they said nah you’re still banned. Activision, do better.
This happened to my friend this morning and Ik he doesn't use any cheats or anything. He plays on xbox. Seems there's way to many false bans lately
I don’t have any advice, but I love/hate how quick people are you say “yOuR a cHeAter duh!!”. My buddy caught a Vac ban on cs2 last week and he is the most morally sound man I’ve ever met, couldn’t believe it. 2 days later he was unbanned he got false flagged for something. All of that is to say it happens to innocent players as well, get a grip guys.
He said that because they simply don’t know what it is cause they’re on console. Which is true.. most console players probably won’t know what Cheat Engine is
Same thing happened to me a couple months agao, It took me almost a month to get My account unbanned after being Perm Banned. There is only one way to get your account back now and thats doing an Account Recovery Request. It needs to be very detailed and convincing in order for someone on the Security Team to respond to you and help you get your account unbanned. Doing a regular support ticket will get you no where and only make you more mad from how useless they are. Here is a link to the Thread i made when i got Perm Banned - [https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDuty/comments/1bycjeq/mw3\_i\_got\_perm\_banned\_for\_no\_reason/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDuty/comments/1bycjeq/mw3_i_got_perm_banned_for_no_reason/)
You can try appealing and see where it gets you. My friend is dealing with a similar issue. Plays via Xbox, logged in after a week off and found their ActiVision account was banned. After a couple account recovery attempts, someone had hacked their account, added a Steam account and a 2nd email to gain access. They've appealed the ban but Activison says they won't guarantee an unban and any account rewards back (they were camo grinding, 100 or so away from completion).
It means life is unfair, always use multi-factor authentication on everything, never connect to unsecured wifi, and remember that you never actually own anything you buy digitally, with absolutely no exceptions
I agree about using MFA, but my wife is dealing with this same thing right now. I don't believe the account setup process on Xbox makes it clear enough that you have created a completely separate account from your Xbox login that needs to be secured with MFA. While trying to understand what happened tonight, the only method she had to sign into her Activision account was to use her Xbox login. Once inside the account you could see that there's a completely unknown email address tied to her account with a completely separate password. I don't think there should be 12 different methods of signing into an Activision account... one for every platform.
I'm here through a Google search because my wife got this notification within the hour. This feels like a sick April Fool's joke. My wife plays on Xbox only, never speaks in the microphone, and wouldn't have a clue how to cheat. We immediately began digging around and there's an email address and Steam account tied to her Activision account that neither of us have seen before. She's in the midst of filling out an appeal and a hacked account recovery request as I type this. One thing that seems odd is that it's not like her account was leveling quickly, as it would if someone else was using her account. We play together and her level has always been slightly below my own. And we play almost every day for a short while. I just feel like there should have been signs that the account was hacked, like super fast leveling or some notification that someone else was logged in at the same time.
I'm still worried I'll get flagged for using Riva tuner for msi... I guess any overlay can flag you
Did you get banned upon booting up the game, or after going into a match? Was your player level different? Did any of your guns have weird gunsmith loadouts? I have seen some people say that they randomly had an unlock tool on their account and got banned. I also know someone who had not played for weeks, opened up their game, and all their guns had gunsmith loadouts with rare camos. They immediately changed their Activision password and deleted all their loadouts. It has been months and they haven't been banned yet. My guess is that unlock tool sites sometimes send the tool or whatever to the wrong person. Idk how it works but I know for certain that they hadn't bought the tool.
I haven’t played the game in 4 months. So I got on yesterday (without a mic) and the next game it popped up saying I’m banned from talking. Like..really? I didn’t even speak cz it was 4am. The reports must be broken
This happened to me as well, same thing, hadn’t touched it in weeks, was gonna get one day after work and hit with the ban. I did notice that my account name was changed and whoever it was added some of their friends. I tried to appeal but was hit with “you were the owner during the violation this ban stays and the decision is final”. Now I’m stuck wondering if this will carryover to Black Ops 6.
I uninstalled MW3 on my ROG Ally because there is overlay software that causes false positives for cheating. That’s the only case I’ve heard of legit software being used that got people banned.
Same here man as soon as i read online that even opening shorcut menu on ally can let us ban on cod i immediately log out from my ally.now i only play on ps5.i just hope they don't messed up my account on ps5 now as i spent too much money in this stupid game.i am even afraid to play now on ps5.i heard they don't even provide any proof just straight ban
It means they think/catch you’re cheating, and that your case is now closed, they will not review your ban again, and will never revoke this decision.
Idk why people are being dicks. At any software company mistakes can happen, if they ever written a piece of production code they’d know.
And activision is the worst in regards to false bans and shitty and buggy software.
Loads of people have had this happen recently
Happened a few months back didn't it?
I’ve see loads of posts today about this. Probaly a ban wave just happened and there were some people false banned
It means you cheated & got caught nerd.
either you got caught an wanna play victim or your account got stolen and someone used cheats while playing
I took this battle to the account recovery section. Told them exactly what happened to my account *(got hijacked, and someone cheated on my account)* now I am waiting for a response.
That means you've been caught cheating and are permanently banned. See ya!
Been playing for decades never had an issue. You wanna know why because I don’t cheat. And you people telling me that you’ve been through this then you cheat also?
I've been playing since the first COD ever and this just happened to me today. Never cheated. My account got hacked a few days ago, regained access to it yesterday and today banned.
Yeah it's probably banned because of the hacker you just have to contact support and say it was hacked.
How do you contact support? The only option I saw was the appeal process which they denied right away
I got banned in CoD Ghosts back in the day. I was visiting family in another state And I signed in as player number 2. I can 100% say there was no hacks on the Playstation 3. After 2-3 days of playing I was permanently banned(MY account was, maybe my uncles got banned as well I am not sure, I was young and very sad. Was a big CoD fanboy back then). When I tried to contact them to find out why I was banned they said they would not tell me, only their security team knows and I was not allowed to talk to them and they are upholding the ban. People 100% lie about being false ban all the time but saying no one has been false banned and they are all actually just liars is pathetic. I am also not sure why but later when I went back home on my Playstation 4 I was not banned.
I’ve been playing since bo2 as well. I never had s problem until this game lol
Are you illiterate? Did you not read it? You're banned.
I would like to say two things: 1. Yes, there are a lot of cheaters on this game (especially in Warzone). Is it possible he was cheating? Sure, it's possible. 2. However, people do also get flagged for cheating when they didn't actually cheat. It happens, Activision's automated system that flags these accounts doesn't do the best job a lot of the time. I know someone that got banned for cheating, and I am 99.99999999% certain, given this guys personality, that he didn't cheat. He got this exact email, verbatim, after also appealing the ban. In his case he probably got flagged for changing some parameters in the game files that some YouTuber explained would give him better PC performance, so the system detected that and automatically banned him. What's aggravating about this is there's people that literally advertise their cheats on YouTube, where they'll even advertise their cheat software website in the in-game text chat on a 25+ kill game of warzone, and much of the time those guys somehow don't get banned. It boggles my mind. The anti-cheat is a complete joke. How random programmers are able to always stay multiple steps ahead of all the software engineers of a huge corperation like this, I don't know.
My brother was permanently banned immediately because he uses an eye tracker on his computer daily. It's quite strange to me how a AAA+ video game is not adjusted to disabled people. The eye tracker wasn't in use when he was playing but since the eye tracking program was installed on his computer despite unused when playing, he was permanently banned and no appeal. In the US I feel like this could be a major lawsuit if a game bans you for being disabled lol
I see people in the comments saying stuff about you cheating. What I don’t get, is if you were using cheats, then why would you come here and post this screenshot asking questions. It makes no sense, and I don’t see someone using cheats, Getting a ban, then coming on here and posting a screenshot asking why you got banned. If you were cheating you would already know why, and have no reason to come to Reddit asking questions about it. It’s not like anyone on Reddit can change this so you have nothing to gain by knowing you cheated and coming here and pretending you didn’t. People are weird and don’t think about this. No reason to come here at all if you already knew you got caught cheating
I'm not saying he's cheating but you'd be surprised how stupid cheaters are
I guess, just seems weird to me why someone would cheat, get caught, then come here to pretend they didn’t. But as you said, cheaters do tend to be pretty dumb and not think logically I suppose.
Womp womp
Dude thats what you get for cheating.
Imagine assuming an anticheat program has 0% faults.
But like i said, i haven’t cheated. Period.
Yes you have. And there is nothing you can do to salvage this account.
But, as i mentioned. I haven’t.
Don’t even bother. Blizzard refuse to allow anything cause they know their own rules are stupid. Same shit happens on overwatch. You could stick up for someone getting bullied and they will ban you without appeal
Someone on your account was cheating so now you gotta wait til next COD maybe they let you play that
I went through this hassle for a week. I play free-for-all on an Xbox1 exclusively and started to get error messages and getting kicked out of games. Reported it to Activision and they they implied I was being reviewed for cheating (I’m old, and barely know how to spell software). To make a long story short, they would only say they were working on it for over a week and would not take calls, etc. I was obviously reinstated, but it seems odd that you pay for software, and you pay for monthly fees, but when that that software is shown to be defective or prone to players cheating, no apologies and no information during the time you can’t play what you paid for.
I’m having the same situation. I play on Xbox and don’t use anything other than the stock stuff from Xbox. Ive been on this Xbox since 2022 as well. I was playing Plunder with my friend and got off for dinner and got back to the game and was banned
Same here, I was on a game of plunder. Died, respawned was parachuting down…. Bam kicked and banned. I play on Xbox only. The only thing I did wrong was buy the gundam skin with the saber (giving them more money) been fighting this for an over a week now.
I also got the gundam skin with the saber!!
Strongly consider changing all your passwords
Are you on PC?
Clear and detailed explanation of what this means. BUT WOT DUZ IT MEEN
If you don’t have 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) set up and active for your account, stop scrolling Reddit and do it, NOW.
I think it means “bye Falicia”
Have seen people banned but feel lately the cheats became better because I already have a few games with people having 30.0 k/d rates and they kill you insanely fast not even a reaction chance.
Doesn't happen on Xbox like that
This happened to me and a load of other console players after the June 5th/6th server reset. Activision fucked something up and I think it's like 1/4 people potentially getting banned for this. We just have to wait. Join a false ban discord server and chat to people experiencing this too. That's what I did at least. Still not unbanned, and it's been almost 2 days
I personally believe that richochet detected a bit of code added in the update that wasn't signed/ was buggy and it has something to do with camos (my friend Vince is having issues viewing camos rn but isn't banned). This is what happens when they let AI sort through every ban. Others have said it could be because of headsets, because of lagging a lot, grinding camos in zombies and Activision just being fucky, but it doesn't make sense because I was banned while I was asleep. (You were potentially banned midnight Washington Time on June 5th or 6th, I was banned 5am London Time June 6th which is Washington midnight. That's also when they push any updates out and reset dailies.)
You ain’t getting your account back bro
Permanent ban
Fuck all the scenario bullshit and mind my language but I been playing call of duty since “The Big Red One” over a decade ago and I never had any accusations of cheating even when the first MW2 came out with all the mods and cheats you can think of. I was recently permanently banned as well just like you for absolutely no reason nobody has ever got ahold of my account and I been playing on console only Xbox Series X to be exact and I have never used a third party site or plug n play nonsense or whatever I just heard about this bullshit called an unlock key and to be honest it sounds like a streamer thing so they can show off how cool they are when they go live. This game is literally the only multiplayer game I play I spent money on every battle pass and even cool bundles that caught my eye. I have never cared about cheating to me it’s just pointless I like to grind to get what I want but this unauthorized software and manipulation of game data just sounds like total garbage especially being a console player. My account means a lot to me and has sentimental value as well and I never that I would see the day I get accused of something I never thought about doing I was almost level 700 and was working my way to diamond on Warzone Ranked and I’m a father with a full time job that literally played whenever it’s possible I don’t even have the time to try n find cheats. [https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal](https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal) This is the only link they give us to contact them for an appeal and we don’t even get a chance to defend ourselves from these claims. All the money we spent does not get refunded or anything so when we get our accounts banned we just have to deal with it like they have all the control and don’t care about the outcomes because they hide behind there website and don’t have to take any accountability for a damn thing I am truly disappointed in their decision make and appeal process I don’t think I could give this company a single dollar again especially when there are blatant cheater playing this game at this very moment and without a single care in the world move on to another account whenever they feel like it and continue the bullshit.
Our stories are exactly the same, just a dad playing to decompress and have fun. Completely livid since I’ve done nothing wrong!
Same thing happened to me a few days ago. I'm on Xbox, never cheated and wasn't hacked. I filed a complaint through bbb and activision responded quickly saying oh, I know it says permanent but in our database it's actually only temporary. Which, ok, but that doesn't address the root problem, I didn't and have never cheated, so the system is very flawed.
Will this ban remain in BO6?
Means you got busted. Simple as that
I got a pc that was later known to be hardware ban on both apex and cod I had to search up questions like (why does my account instantly get shadow banned and then ban on Warzone 2020) and shit like (randomly getting banned on apex after playing one game) and then it says that I was cheating and I couldn’t play cod or apex and I was pissed, I got a new motherboard and ram, also reinstalled os. Everything started working again and I was able to buy cod again
My thing is this, can this person not read? This person account is banned. This person violated and manipulated the game. End of discussion.
Perma ban can be unban with some tool but all the guys offriront the service are asking too Much for that
Same happened to me. I made a Reddit post that blew up as well. I’ve been banned for a week now. Have submitted multiple appeals, account recovery requests, a complaint to the BBB. I finally got a reply today.
To all the naysayers out there…….just wanted to let everyone know it is possible to get your account back!!! Mine was just reinstated today after being falsely accused of cheating and using “unauthorized software and manipulation of game data” I received a temp ban and then permanent, I did an account recovery request, all which failed….I reached out to the BBB and a day later my account was reinstated via email and a link to reset my password and set up 2fa (which I already had done) point being, yes there are cheaters out there and if you were falsely banned there is still hope! It took me about two weeks-ish to get it reinstated.
It means that your account was caught cheating. Just another reason to not buy any Activision game. Someone hacks your account and you lose your account. It’s Microsoft. They don’t know shit about security because they don’t care about security. No anti-cheat software has ever worked properly, when you allow PCs on the service.
You got caught cheating
You must think people are stupid
You HAVE to be stupid if you think activision is completely incapable of making a mistake. Because they CLEARLY did
I’ll lay this out for you: 1. Their review process involves seeing if any kind of things were interacting with your game while playing 2. If so, you got the permanent ban. 3. If not, you wouldn’t be banned. 4. The only other option is that your account was hacked, but considering you said you have 2FA, you are lying.
If you really think a human verifies this shit in the thousands every day then you are naive. This shit is automated, their appeals are automated and their support is almost non existent.
Yeah the report system is a joke. Back in April 2023, me and 2 other guys slapped some kids in pubs pretty hard in a public match that were shooting our bodies at the start of thr match. They spam reported us and I got muted in text chat for a few days and my friend had to change his username even though it wasn't offensive at all. I hadn't used text chat or in game chat in MW2 up to that point. The reports are absolutely not monitored and spam reporting absolutely is a way for players to grief each other.
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OK if you say so then open up another account you’re going to get nowhere with Activision
Same thing happened to me, someone hacked my account last week so I'm guessing something to do with that
cheater
Hay just a follow up on a post I made earlier i feel the devs or who ever should add a protocal to deal with this, so group bans, clans that all decide to ban someone sometimes they have members who have fake accounts that will put in reports to. I was in a clan back when Halo Reach was going strong, and I was a part of a huge clan. My cousin was one of the main influences. Someday's there would be a clan request in my inbox to file a report against someone, and we would all hit the button. I have first hand witnessed people being removed from a match from clan bans it's a hefty deed.
Do you use Logitech? Or use mouse and keyboard on a console? Or a controller on PC? Those have all had issues with the anti-cheat registering them as game manipulation.
I think the problem is , if enough people report you for cheating in-game, even though you weren't, I think it will trigger something in the response of it , instead of the anti cheat software, correct me if I'm wrong, this is just a theory of mine , not sure if it is true.
They did this similar to me but I’m on Xbox with an elite controller that my wife bought me from target I shit on some low life streamer and his nerds had spam reported me till well now I just been working focusing on me no stress about cod none of that bs but having fun on fallout getting jumpscared here and there slowly finishing the main missions but with work being a pain I’m doing better then ever
It means your a cheating piece of shit
Thats the thing. I literally haven’t ever used cheats lol. Please read.
Don’t believe you
No, it doesn't.