Im runnig some safe measures..I've been playing legit on my account for a couple years, until I recently started botting. I guess the GM's can investigate what country the IP is played on that account from. I am currently using pingbuster to change my IP to a shady/another countrys IP. Say if I get banned and want to appeal this, can I just confusingly say that "I got banned after trying to pick up the game again, only to see that the account is banned"? Are the odds high that they will see that it looks suspicious (like a real hacker has gotten access to my account) and they will lift the ban? *My friend has had his account hacked several times (only occured after he quit playing wow for a longer period) and then when he picked up the game again he only had to send a ticket and got instant unbanned. *I quite recently removed authentication and sms protection, would that look too suspicious maybe? *I'm using my paypal to pay the prepaid gametime, would that seem bad to or? tl:dr fake that your account is hacked by a "hacker" (which is obvisouly you) and if you get banned, you can easily appeal cause hacked accounts is easier to appeal.