ive said it before and ill say it again. i played FR in a house of quite a few people who played FR, and all of them gradually quit. when they quit, they sent me their rare stuff like sprites, fest apparel, old dragons, etc. all on the same IP, all on each others friend list

we had all been playing for years separately, trading food and loaning each other gems or familiars to bond with (the funnest was us passing around a sprite for each of us to bond with every day since we collectively only had one of that one, we all got it to awakened together), buying gems from each other, etc
it was clear, for years, that we were all separate accounts, because its actually really fucking easy to tell when youre just playing for another account

i will never, ever believe "we were separate accounts and got banned!" or really most other "unfairly banned" stories, especially not after being friends with someone who raised a stink about how they were unfairly banned for "no reason" when they had told me a week prior to their ban they were selling their g1 imp on the black market (i didnt rat them out, the admins just arent as stupid as people think)

tldr people are stupid liars 98% of the time when they are banned