Warzone cheaters reportedly permabanned players using a simple exploit; Ricochet's credibility is under scrutiny

Modified Oct 18, 2024 08:50 GMT

Warzone anti-cheat — COD cheaters found exploit to permaban Warzone players (Image via Activision)

Over time, Several Call of Duty: Warzone players have had their accounts banned permanently, and a report has surfaced online, indicating that some of these bans might have been wrongful. Reportedly, an exploit was used by some cheaters in the game to unfairly ban players.

One of the biggest cheat providers in the industry, @zebleerpro, has made this claim on their X account. Reportedly, they confirmed the exploit was real by having some players banned in the title. The user has also provided the ban IDs of the suspended gamers to further consolidate their point.

This raises concern regarding the Ricochet Anti-cheat's credibility in Call of Duty and also questions whether all the bans we've seen in the past years were legitimate. Read on to learn more about the situation.

Note: This article is based on rumors in the Call of Duty community. Readers are advised to take the information herein with a grain of salt and await official confirmation.

Warzone players' false permaban questions Ricochet anti-cheat in Call of Duty

On their X account, @zebleerpro claimed that there is an exploit found by someone else that could be used to unfairly ban players in the game via an "auto-hotkey script." To make sure of exploit worked, @zebleerpro reportedly had asked the individual to ban some accounts, and surprisingly, these profiles were banned in the game.

Here are the three accounts that were falsely banned in Warzone and MW3, according to the post owner:

NukeJesus#8747550
Parasite#2709744
Censor#4876624

Regarding the victims of the exploit, @zebleerpro said:

"I believe Bobby Poff and several others were victims of this exploit, along with thousands of random COD players, but I do not have Activision IDs or info to vindicate them."

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Popular Call of Duty streamer BobbyPoff got his original Warzone account permanetly banned a while ago. Surprisingly, it was stated in a recent post by @ModernWarzone that the streamer's account had been restored. The post indicated the content creator had been banned due to same exploit.

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Coming to the Ricochet anti-cheat's credibility, Activision previsiously stated that there were "no false permanent bans" in Call of Duty back in April 2024. However, based on the current scenario, it seems like cheaters used an exploit to ban some popular streamers from the game, as well as random players.

Although Activision has yet to address this situation, the @zebleerpro's post is going viral and brings into question Ricochet's credibility.

Whether or not the exploit is real or actually works is unclear, but given the situation right now, Activision needs to come up with a statement.

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Edited by Debabrata Naiya