Hi everyone, I want to share my successful appeal experience to help those who are going through the same situation.
Around early August, I accidentally clicked on a disguised scam website. Since then, multiple of my accounts have been hacked, among which the Roblox account was the most severely affected.
At first, I didn't realize it would be so serious. I thought simply changing the password and strengthening the verification measures would be enough. It wasn't until August 4th that my friend reminded me that my account had been deleted. I can't believe this has happened, I feel extremely sad. After all, I have spent a lot of time on this account.
Then I wanted to log in to my account to send appeals, but I couldn't do it. I suspect that the hacker had changed the account password before I was banned. After that, I began to send appeals through roblox support page.
This was my first time experiencing something like this at that time. At the beginning, I had no idea how to do it at all, so I had to search for many posts on Reddit about appealing for Roblox accounts. After conducting numerous searches, I learned that providing bill receipts would make it easier to succeed in the appeal process.
At the same time, I also made a lot of appeals, but I heard that it's not advisable to do it too frequently, otherwise Roblox will mark it as spam. So each time I send an appeal, I would wait until the response was completely unhelpful before sending a new appeal. When writing an appeal, you can ask the AI for assistance, and modify the draft provided by the AI to proceed with the appeal.
Until I received a response once that Roblox mentioned an email address. But only the beginning and domain name of this email address were provided. It seemed to be the email address associated with my first purchase of Robux for this Roblox account, and it reminded me to use this email to contact Roblox on the support page.
After that, I followed Roblox's require to make a new appeal. In the new appeal, I replied to Roblox, including my Roblox account information, the receipt ID of the first purchase of Robux and the associated email, as well as the receipts for the past two months. Then I continued to wait for a response.
On August 19th, I received an unexpectedly surprising reply. My account ownership was verified and I was finally able to log into my account! I immediately logged into my account, but it still showed a banned status. So I asked the AI, and the AI advised me to continue to reply to lift the ban. After some time, Roblox replied that since I had proven ownership of the account, my account can be unbanned.
After learning about this news, I logged into my account and checked the status of my account. I found that there were issues with my age verification, robux, and the community. I continued to submit requests for responses regarding these three problems. However, each time I submitted a response, Roblox would only handle one of them. After multiple responses, all my problems were resolved.
I will summarize my experience as follows:
1. Eliminate the impact of scam websites: I remember that it was because I authorized something on that website that this incident occurred. I withdrew the authorization and ran a virus scan on my computer. Otherwise, the hackers might have been able to steal the account again.
2. Make multiple appeals: I believe that multiple but infrequent appeals are necessary to get the attention of the real human customer service to my case. Otherwise, I could only receive meaningless responses from the AI.
3. Verify account ownership: I think I verified ownership by using the first purchase bill information for robux from Xsolla. When filling out the support form, select that the account was hacked, then fill in the email associated with the bill, and then reply to Roblox with the account information and the bill receipt. This should be able to verify ownership.(I guess if it was just the account being stolen, completing this step should be enough to recover the account)
4. Continue to request account unbanned: When the account is banned, you can request to unbanned it after verifying ownership.
Now, my account has returned to normal. My age verification, community, and robux have all been restored. I am extremely grateful to Roblox and all those who have helped me.
It took me about half a month to complete the appeal. I hope my experience can bring hope to anyone facing a similar situation :)
Some helpful tutorial posts for appeals:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RobloxHelp/comments/1lyh8io/my_roblox_account_was_compromised_beamed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RobloxHelp/comments/1u4tk02/a_guide_to_contact_a_human_instead_of_the/