Streamer ‘pretending to cheat’ gets instantly banned from MW3
A Call of Duty streamer 'pretending to cheat' has been banned after multiple reports against them in Modern Warfare 3.
05th Mar 2024 17:12
Image via Sledgehammer Games
Streamer ‘pretending to cheat’ gets instantly banned from MW3
A Call of Duty streamer 'pretending to cheat' has been banned after multiple reports against them in Modern Warfare 3.
05th Mar 2024 17:12
Image via Sledgehammer Games
Sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference between a Call of Duty hacker, and someone who is just well-versed in the series and can understand timings and spawns.
But things only get more confusing when players try to kid a kidder, and that exact mentality has landed one player in some hot water.
Whilst "pretending to cheat" one Modern Warfare 3 player has been instantly banned amid a wealth of reports.
Modern Warfare 3 streamer 'pretends to cheat' 
It is something that Mason "Symfuhny" Lanier does to kid his haters into calling "cheat", but for the smaller streamer "Bams", pretending to cheat has not ended well.
The streamer, using mouse and keyboard, opted to throw in some sus snaps while playing in a public Search and Destroy game, often firing in random directions after getting a kill, as if his aimbot had snapped onto a new target.
Bams also pretended to track players through walls, leaving the players in the lobby mindblown as they continued to rack up kills.
But the fun quickly backfired as the whole lobby reported the user for cheating, and they were banned promptly afterwards.
Pretend cheater banned from Modern Warfare 3
Taking to social media to post his clips, Bams claimed that he has been banned as a result of this ploy, showing an email from Activision to his account "BlackBanana67" which details he cannot play MW3, MW2, or Warzone anymore.
The ban in place is a shadowban, which limits matchmaking for the trifecta of titles currently active in Call of Duty, until a time when their account has been properly reviewed.
Still, they could be cheating after all, especially as hackers have found ways to bypass the Ricochet anti-cheat, and we could all be none the wiser.
Maybe PC players shouldn't try and act sus, knowing the army of players with their finger on the report buzzers nowadays.
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Jack Marsh
Jack is an Esports Journalist at GGRecon. Graduating from the University of Chester, with a BA Honours degree in Journalism, Jack is an avid esports enthusiast and specialises in Rocket League, Call of Duty, VALORANT, and trending gaming news.
