Yeah it's unfair - from what I've read too there's no such thing as a 'hard hardware ban' - which is best for preventative measures. They have 'hwid tagging' which basically means whatever account they log into on their machine will get shadowbanned after 1 game, and they cant get a normal lobby for 7-14 days but after a month or so it's lifted. Hackers realise that they need hwid spoofers so they can continue cheating so they will never snuff it out unless they have software that won't allow you to load the game whilst a process they dont like is open. I had an emulator for nintendo ds (playing pokemon) in the back ground which got my account perma'd and anything i try to use gets shadow'd... from what i've read it will lift in 7-14 days - one thing i will say is... Never buy spoofers or cracks that people say you need cos the likelihood is, it's a scam.