The community has grown weary of this. In one famous incident, a player encountered two cheating teammates in Ranked mode. Instead of helping them win, the legitimate player , wasting the cheaters' time and ensuring their loss.

Hardware ID (HWID) Bans: In many cases, developers implement bans that target the specific hardware components of a computer, preventing any new accounts from being created or played on that machine.

Many "free" or "cheap" colorbots found on shady forums are actually trojans designed to steal your Discord tokens, passwords, or crypto wallets.