Faction Transfer / Account Compromise Issue

#0 - Jan. 11, 2010, 5:10 a.m.
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This will require a short time line of events so that you properly understand my problem.

Thursday Afternoon:
I faction change my warlock (Inahk) from Alliance to Horde on Mannoroth. I get an e-mail saying my faction change is "PENDING". The faction transfer goes through fine, I log on my warlock and run a couple of heroic dungeons. I log off for a while. I never got a faction transfer complete e-mail.

Thursday 10:29 PM EST:
I get an e-mail from Blizzard account administration telling me I have been banned for 72 hours for economy exploitation. I immediately knew this meant my account had been hacked. I tried to log in but my password was changed. I used the secret question to recover my password.

I send an e-mail to Blizzard asking them to remove the 72 hour ban and explaining the situation. I wait for a response. I also order an authenticator. :p

Friday 6:08 PM EST:
I get an e-mail from Blizzard telling me my faction transfer has failed due to either my credit card being declined or they suspected that I was not the one who initiated it. But yet, my warlock was already horde, I faction changed it myself, and I had already been playing it BEFORE I was hacked.

Sunday 10:29 PM EST
My 72 hour suspension wears off, without actually being lifted by Blizzard during its duration.
I log in, check my druid and see that all its gear and gold is still there, then go to log into to my warlock and I get the message "You cannot log in until the character update process you recently initiated is complete."

My warlock is horde, as I wanted it to be, yet the game thinks a faction transfer is still pending or something? Can my character be fixed somehow?

Thanks in advance.
#3 - Jan. 11, 2010, 2:36 p.m.
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Any kind of transfer so close to a compromise is liable to send up some flags, Inahk - that's for your protection.

Account Administration is really the proper department to contact - but there is a chance Billing may be able to unlock this for you. Wouldn't hurt to give them a ring and ask in this particular case. They may need to have to still email Account Admin, or possibly send this along to be looked into further but it certainly can't hurt to ask.

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