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What do I do if i was wrongly banned by a hacker on gaia?

I think it's more of a problem that I have--but there's a question I'd like to ask first so I'm using the question form instead of the problem form. Also, this will not be one or two paragraphs; for that, I apologize.

I did a simple keyword search through Google with 'unfairly banned account gaiaonline' and this website was on the first page. ...Is this for real? I thought it would be a lot harder than this to really talk to people who work for Gaia Online. I signed up with yet another banned account issue weighing on me. I'd really appreciate some insight on this, so here is the information I think will be relevant:

I have a main account and several mules from over the years, but I can't quite remember most of them, so the only three accounts I have been using regularly for the past year have been my original Dec 15 2003 account and two others created just this year. Using my main account, I have not transferred any gold to the other two--only items. The items, however, are not cheap. One of the accounts has store-bought items on the more expensive side, and that one along with my main are not banned. However:

From my main account, I transferred a very, very rare item to my newest mule (only one or two weeks old): the Zombie G Corp Labcoat. I also transferred other very valuable items not available in stores to complete the outfit (including a Steel-plated Ninja Band). This is the account that has been banned. It is under the same username as the one I have signed up with here: Pistolradio

I have already e-mailed an inquiry but was pretty short about it; I didn't want to be in hysterics since I understand how many people worry just like me and send in plenty for Gaia staff to read. I'm glad I found this place where I can be a little more clear about myself and what I have been doing with these accounts, although I'm still apprehensive--is it even possible for me to get my items back to my main account? In the past half hour that I've been researching this matter, I have read some very disconcerting things. I am not angry at this point... I was shocked at first, then realized it may be due to the quick transfer of very rare items, and now I am scared that this issue will be another closed case.

I have learned my lesson about transferring such precious things so quickly, which I have read sends flags up for 'botting'.

I used Firefox with the 'IE Tab' plug-in to do the transfers. My main account was in the Firefox tab and my new (now banned) mule was in the IE tab. I was not botting; I was manually entering the passwords for each of these accounts using the cross-browser plug-in for Firefox.

I will answer to any questions anyone has--whatever I can do to safely make my case known and hopefully get my hard-earned items back to my main account. I am comfortable with the open disclosure of the usernames of the accounts if my matter is chosen to be investigated. Thanks in advance to any of the help I'm hoping to receive. Take care.

I was permannetaly banned for no reason today at 8 o'clock eastern us time.
I am wandering why I was banned because I WAS warned and I did thank them for the warning, but then when I log in today it says I'm perma banned. My account is Raine Sage TOS. Yes I am a charity owner. I typed a long email for them to read so I can get my account back. : Here is the email they sent me..

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You have a message from the Gaia Online administrator:

Your account Raine Sage TOS is permanently banned because of the following reason:

Buying Gaia Gold with real money, a violation of Gaia's Terms of Service (sections 7 and 12), and numerous warnings across the website.

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I only did this once, but then I quit when I was warned.. -.-

I sent another email and they sent this...

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Thank you for submitting your report.
Your report has been placed in a queue, and a moderator will contact you by PM to request more information or to update you on the status of your request.

Thank you for using Gaia.

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This message has been automatically created in response to the feedback form that you've submitted and a summary of which appears below.

We will contact you when we have a request for more information or an answer to your questions. If you need to contact us on this issue before then you should reply to this email to ensure we are able to respond properly.

Please do not reply to this email unless you have new information pertaining to this issue.

Thank you,

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I bet you they will NEVER contact me.. >.>
Gaia is a bunch of lazy people that have no life and can't try to get facts.. That's why they were founded in a dumpster.. <.<

If ANYONE needs any more info on this contact me by replying. Thank you. I WILL reply back. x.x
My User ID Is 14912758.
And My Ticket Number Is #251122.

My main gaiaonline account, angel junkie, was established in 2003. I have worked hard and donated time, money, and effort into this account. I took a hiatus a few years ago and recently came back to gaia. I have worked very very hard to get the items that I have on that account-I had over 700 most event items, mcs, eis, and interactive items-making my account worth a hefty sum of gaian gold. I am proud of the work I put into that account and it was my very first-I've gone through a lot with it and it has been with me through the years. Recently, 7/7/08, I was on my account one minute the next I was kicked off and told to log-in again. Upon attempting to log in the site told me that I was banned and to inquiry@gaiaonline.com. Well I emailed but no response, except the ticket number 212276...I haven't even received an email stating why I am banned. the email address associated with this account is bleu_berrie@hotmail.com. I have also just tried to submit a ticket through a link I found on here that number is 214750 (sorry I didn't know they went to the same place). My mule account which is not banned is angel-s vampyric aura, you can contact me there as well as here or my email account. Please I never would do anything to hurt gaia or go against the tos! I know that I can be banned at anytime for any reason, but I would like to know why and if I can ever get my old account back. I have donated hundreds-if not over a thousand of my hard earned dollars to gaia over the years that's how much i value gaia! Please help me. What is my recourse?

I was wondering about any ways that I could try to get unbanned(if it can that is). or at least any of the other 4 accounts that were banned with my main. (Cause I think that's a little unfair, two of those were my friend's accounts, whom I was trying to help out because of a recent hacking D: )

I have been blocked by gaia on march 10, I have also been hacked once on another account once before. I have not cheated, scummed, spamed, hack, or did anything to break the gaiaonline rules.

I wish to be unbanned as i am an innocent gaiaonliner, and I speak for all the innocent ones that have been blocked on this day and never given back their account.

I love gaiaonline to hang out on, and made some great friends while helping some new players get started by donating them a few K or so as when I was new some people gave me gold too...I also love fishing on there, and was getting a bit better each time.

I'm still too young to go to the casino..So I play the online slot or card game.

It's great knowing you have a whole community not knowing who you really are in the real world...if you're popular, or a geek, if aa jock, or a nerd in the computer lab...

though, there are many that help out...there may be a few that aren't quite nice...but we still support each other...

and all the event on gaia are just wonderful...like on valentines day where you give people kisses... and the water ballon fight in the summer

I understand that there was a small forum created in this situation...they said that they would give all the inccent people their accounts back, in the next few day

I have never donwe anything to break their rules...and I think I have waited long enough as it's almost approching another school year starting and was banned in march. almost half a year.

My hacked account was Apple_candy

and my banned account is Plat-num Soda Pops

I wish to have my accounts back...Gaia...I really love the site...plase unban me...as well as all ther other innocent that you have blocked.

I finally returned to Gaia after I was grounded for an extended period of time (my grades dropped, parents's rules) and found that my account had been banned. I was very upset and still am, as that was one of the main things I wanted to return to when I got back on Gaia Online. Apparently my brother went into my computer and found my text file with my username and password in it so I didn't forget, and copied it to sticky note. He says he didn't doanything, but my parents don't believe him. The only thing I can think of is that he did something stupid and got me banned, OR he gave away my password to some hacker or something, somehow. Well, my dad filed an inquiry to the Gaia Team under my email (since it's the email registered to the account), here it is.

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Good morning to the Gaia Online team. My name is Paul Wohler, and I am writing
from my son's, Cole's, email. It seems that while Cole was grounded from his
computer usage these past year or two his older brother Jacob went onto his
computer and opened the text file containing Cole's (iDeadly's) username and
password and copied them down onto a sticky note we found in his room. While
Jacob won't admit to what he did exactly, the account is now banned, and Cole is
very distraught. Gaia Online was one of the things we had used as a priveledge
that would be taken away if his grades dropped, and they did. He was greatly
looking forward to returning to Gaia, but is now unable to. Cole asked me if I
could type a formal unban request, as he wasn't sure if he would be able to
convince you of his innocence. It would be greatly appreciated if you would
Unban iDeadly so he may return to your community. With his recently acquired
job, Cole was looking forward to buying the new donation items and seeing some
new battle game that Gaia was apparently planning to implement, prior to Cole's
grounding. I would love to be able to tell my son that he can go back to
playing on Gaia Online.

I will be awaiting your reply, thank you,
-Paul Wohler (Father of Cole Wohler, iDeadly)

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I hope someone could help me. Maybe Jakobo? I've seen him helping on other problems, and he seems rather friendly and also appears to have some insight and experience on these types of things.

Thanks in advance.

I really thought I'd have my banned accounts back by now, but I guess there really is no hope, Gaia seems to be absolutely certain that I was botting. I have been told to stop making appeals and that the decision is final. Really I'm at my last thread of hope here. What happened? How can Gaia be so sure of my guilt if I didn't do it? What evidence are they relying on and how solid is it?

Yes I traded to my main a lot for a while, but I have years of trading in and out of my main, and even gave a list of trades proving that the trading was not one way. I have many accounts, but there is no rule saying how many accounts we can have. I did collect daily chance on more than one account daily to raise money, but I asked and am also told that does not break any rules. I was signed in on more than one account the day of my banning, but am also told THAT does not break any rules. Nor does trading the collected daily chance gold to my main break any rules.

But apparently this all adds up to me looking like a bot, but how can not breaking any rules, despite being suspicious looking, get me banned for botting? I have a long clean record, good attitude and behavior on the site, and bought for years all my sealed envelopes. I had no need to bot with the wealth I had saved up over the years. I could have simply sold one of my 04 letters I had saved for the single purpose of selling in the far future.

The only thing I can think of now was that I was apparently "moving faster than is possible for a human being" which is simply not true. If I was moving too fast they need to recalculate the speed a person who has grown up on computers and spends several hours a day on one can move, because it's pretty darn fast let me tell you.

I don't know what else I can do, I did not bot and I am desperate for my accounts back. It's not right to be banned for something I didn't do. I was a good member and a good person, this is not right and it's not fair. Why is Gaia being so bullheaded about this? Can they not fathom that they might have made a mistake?

My account: xx_omegafire_xx was banned march10th. I was told there was a code error and thousands of inocent accounts where banned. Could you please look into this?

I was banned for outside trading of gold, though I believe I have never done this. Gaia has failed to tell me what it was that I did exactly. I was never warned or anything prior to this. While I know Gaia CAN ban you with no reason, I didn't think I did anything to bother anyone that much. It bummed me out big time. What can I do to find out what on earth I did wrong and how to avoid doing so again?

My friend's account was banned a couple months ago, and she said that the Reason for Banning was something about Botting. I trust my friend completely, and I know she wouldn't do something like that. The mods won't unban her account, and she wants her stuff back. How can she get her items back without unbanning her account?

I was wondering about accounts banned for profiting from scamming, has there ever been an account that was relieved of their ban? and when I go to the profile of my banned account (-Kyncha-) it shows that it has been logged into recently which I'm pretty sure is someone from the site. But what I want to know is, why is it being logged into?