r/nintendohelp • u/CoCoNutV123 • 4h ago
Recommendations My Nintendo account was banned after an eShop purchase receipt showed an unfamiliar email, and support won't lift the ban. Advice?
My very first post because I'm desperate..I am hoping someone has advice.
I have been a loyal customer of over 10 years at leassssst.. bought a Nintendo switch and now a switch 2 earlier this year. I've only ever bough from legitimate places including for all the games. Saturday 10/24 I went to buy the new donkey kong game on my phone as I wanted to use my PayPal for the that quick one click settings (I use PayPal as someone told me its good for online purchase it protects you) Used my Samsung password app to auto fill. On Sunday evening I go to log in and look at the game for the first time and it says I have been banned. I wasn't able to call until they opened the next morning and called first thing. They told me my account was banned because I tried to use someone else's info. I look on the receipt ( I didn't prior as I don't usually look at my receipts when I purchase on line as I already know how much) and it had an email I have never seen before and confirmed its not saved anywhere in my phone. I also did not enter it in when I purchased this. Nintendo said there's nothing they can do that. I need to call PayPal. So I call PayPal. And the first person says she's going to open up an investigation, but didn't give me a ticket number. So I went to a call back for that ticket number, and the second person said there wasn't any previous, which was weird. So then I called again was able to speak a supervisor who basically said they can't do anything without paypal's purchase ID # that only nintendo has. So they said, I have to call nintendo I called nintendo back, gave them all information, and they still said they can't do anything. Because of this one weird instance that I did not do they took every game I've purchased on my long time email as well as recently just bought games.
They keep saying they won't look into it until that person opens an investigation. But I don't know who that is and I did not do this.
DISCLAMER: I am not looking for a refund or a free game. I am looking to find a way to at least get allll my previous purchases back prior to this glitch. I made the purchase using my fingerprint with my stored information and confimed on my phone that it was only my info in the pass. So I logged into my account but somewhere after that it linked to some random persons account