VRChat Trust&Safety System Being Abused

Recently I’ve been dealing with 2 people abusing the trust&saftey system.

I’ve seen 4 people’s accounts get unjustifiably banned via the users who’ve gotten banned showing me.
The 3rd person hasn’t even been online for a while to my knowledge.
The same person doing this plans on doing this to my account.

The 4th person who got falsely banned told VRChat Trust&Saftey beforehand, and even showed them a video of the person threatening to get their account banned, and the person who was threatening their account to get banned, got banned. But later the person who threatened the user was able to forge evidence and get the 4th person’s account banned.

So here is how it works they make a new account and use Unicode (this is a guess) to make the name exactly like the user’s account, then what they do is they make them do actions that are against TOS Then they report it to VRChat, and Boom they are banned.

I feel like Trust&Saftey can check if they have gone to the world or The recent users they have encountered and the avatar they have worn since you can easily check that on VRCX.

Is there any suggestion on what I should do to protect my account and other users that might be next?

I’ve been trying to find a way to prevent this but as I said Trust&Saftey will not help at all even when a user contacts them or I contact them, even with proof of a threat.

I should mention a side note, one of the users who’s the main person in this whole thing aka doing the framing, I’ve reported them for breaking other TOS stuff with concrete proof, and still nothing.

Other people have reported them as well and the same outcome.

Even someone in the Creator Economy Program reported them due to them constantly breaking TOS in their worlds and still nothing.

They have some weird protection and I don’t understand why.

Update: I believe it might also be some hidden character exploit that works on Unity/VRChat not just regular Unicode letters, I don’t know what it could be but I’m sure VRChat could figure it out.

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I’ve noticed this as well over the years.
It’s extremely unfair that some people have this much “power” to get others banned this way.
Please VRChat take action against this issue.

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At this point I don’t know what to do I’ve honestly tried everything to get the main guy who’s running the operation taken down. The amount of exploits, things, etc. is bad, the main thing I’ve been reporting them for is for multiple horrible things they did in VRChat which I can not disclose or say here per the rules. I’ve asked people who know a lot of this stuff how to report him etc. I’ve implemented all the measure told to me. No Slack to VRC or anything, but in situations like these I noticed this stuff only gets taken action once a news program picks it up or legal stuff happens. and I’m sick of seeing people get harassed by this guy and silenced. I’m sick of getting harassed as well. I’ve given full concrete proof for stuff I reported as well. This whole thing has been incredibly frustrating to deal with… I’m gonna try my best though as that’s what I can do to protect the people involved..

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Its not what we players can do but tell VRC mods and that’s really it

I totally agree with you, this situation is just not okay at all. It’s frustrating to see how some people can abuse the system like this and get away with it. No one should have to deal with this kind of harassment, and the fact that even solid proof isn’t enough to get action taken is honestly ridiculous. VRChat really needs to step up and do something about it.

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Update: it might also be some hidden character exploit for Unity/VRChat

I don’t know what it could be, as hidden characters are usually blocked when naming your account

I’ve actually seen this a lot recently, quite a few accounts had what you would think were rare usernames, like “Pain”, but upon closer inspection it turned out the P had some sort of ` looking character inside of it as if a special character had been wedged inside of it.

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