And to be honest, I really doubt that anyone who has an abandoned account from 2014 that they have literally never touched since is going to get banned.
That would mean that FR would need to create a tool that would crawl through 500,000+ accounts to look for same IPs and same Emails and similiar naming patterns and so on. (and even then would hit people who aren't multis, and still miss some who are, so they would still need to individually go through each hit to make sure).
Instead I have the feeling that FR has tools that flag certain activities.
1. The obvious would be funneling from one or more accounts to a single account. Not just gift bombing, but where the accounts do nothing but send to one specific account. Even then I feel that they wait for reports or someone to be super super obvious about it.
2. This is the one that I feel probably gets a lot of people who had old abandoned accounts banned: logging in to change the password and/or move dragons to the new account. This probably sends up flags because logging in to an account that is several years old just to change the password could be an indication of RMT (ie selling an old account), and if you log into an old account and send things over to the new account, it doesn't matter how many years it has been since you last used the account, that is still funneling.
I am sure there are others, but I really really really doubt that FR has the time and manpower to go through the aforementioned 500K+ accounts and check each one to make sure that someone didn't make a new account. They most likely rely mostly on highly suspicious activities or people reporting the accounts. Which is why so many people do get away with it. They fly below the radar so to speak, because they often don't call attention to themselves, and they do enough things 'differently' that it doesn't catch the attention of whatever tools they use.
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That would mean that FR would need to create a tool that would crawl through 500,000+ accounts to look for same IPs and same Emails and similiar naming patterns and so on. (and even then would hit people who aren't multis, and still miss some who are, so they would still need to individually go through each hit to make sure).
Instead I have the feeling that FR has tools that flag certain activities.
1. The obvious would be funneling from one or more accounts to a single account. Not just gift bombing, but where the accounts do nothing but send to one specific account. Even then I feel that they wait for reports or someone to be super super obvious about it.
2. This is the one that I feel probably gets a lot of people who had old abandoned accounts banned: logging in to change the password and/or move dragons to the new account. This probably sends up flags because logging in to an account that is several years old just to change the password could be an indication of RMT (ie selling an old account), and if you log into an old account and send things over to the new account, it doesn't matter how many years it has been since you last used the account, that is still funneling.
I am sure there are others, but I really really really doubt that FR has the time and manpower to go through the aforementioned 500K+ accounts and check each one to make sure that someone didn't make a new account. They most likely rely mostly on highly suspicious activities or people reporting the accounts. Which is why so many people do get away with it. They fly below the radar so to speak, because they often don't call attention to themselves, and they do enough things 'differently' that it doesn't catch the attention of whatever tools they use.