Blatant boosting service, account sharing and smurfing and nothing is being done about it

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I’m so angry, that there is a guy who is blatantly streaming as he is smurfing and helping his friends boosting other player’s SR (on PC btw) for real money and eventho I reported it, nothing is being done about it! Why Blizzard? I won’t link the stream here, but they are discussing boosting on the stream like “Oh guys, I just got a customer with bronze SR and is willing to pay X dollars.” or if that is not enough proof the guy is playing on different accounts everytime he plays and they are all below diamond and he even admits several times that the accounts don’t belong to him!

I reported this I think mid december, we are end of January and the guy is still going strong with his buddies ruining other players gaming experience and earning money for it. The accountnames are visible in the stream and I even gave a few examples where they are talking about their shifty business. I’m pretty sure in 2019 you can track down a player even if he is using other player’s account by IP-Address or PC-ID or something, somehow! Why is he not getting banned?

Btw, I met this guy in one of my games, he was once on my team and once against me he was boosting a third person with a friend of his and he was owning everyone as Widow and Hanzo and linked his stream on the chat. Back then I didn’t knew what’s going on, until I checked out the stream. He and his friends also get very toxic if they die on chat and telling people to kill them selves etc.

Why do we have to put up with such scumbag people Blizzard? I wish I could re-open my ticket and ask what is the reason for not banning this person and his booster buddies? It’s so blatant, infront of your eyes and nothing is being done about it!

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Because if he is boosting he obviously wouldn’t care about his account, lol. He is getting paid.

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Think you can report his name and channel to the anti-cheating posts? I forgot what their url is. Hopefully someone can link it because I do not have the ability to post links.

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First of all, it’s not as simple as tracking down an IP address to find a player. Blizzard isn’t at all connected to Twitch’s services… they are partners, but not to the extent that Twitch gives Blizzard all of their customers’ internet credentials and information.

Since no one willingly shares their IP address on the stream (nor the Battle tag # code after their name unless they happen to hover over their personal name plate), with Battle. net allowing duplicate names, an agent would have to look up and filter through match history, and manually sort the matches it could possibly be, and sift through player names until all of the player names match the names on stream.

Secondly, this takes time. The bans are deployed in waves, where there can be months between each ban wave. It’s not done as soon as you report them. That’s not humanly possible.