Did not receive payment in December

Just to be clear, is that the message that also says your account won’t be reinstated?

Yeah, it generally keeps logged in for a while and people don’t get the flagged notice until it finally disconnects and they attempt to log in again. There is/was something of a bug not long ago that was letting people log in even while flagged, but I think that has been resolved.

Unfortunately, never can know what happens. I do wish Brave could be a little more open on this process, but they aren’t. To be honest, a lot of banks and cryptocurrency type places are the same as well. I’ve shared links and screenshots before of places like Coinbase, Binance, Gemini, and others all explaining that accounts were being closed but wouldn’t explain why.

The long and short of it though is generally it means antifraud teams did a risk assessment and determined that your use of the Rewards was unusual and a violation of Brave’s Terms of Use had occurred. This violation also either was severe or frequent enough that they also believe it to be intentional.

And even if you believe you did nothing, there’s no real way to appeal it or argue. People can reply to the emails or make another ticket, but they’ll generally just reply that a decision was made and nothing more can be done. Either that, or they’ll just ignore the messages once they have made their final decision.

You can see where I was talking to someone else who was upset over being flagged over at Not getting my Brave Rewards!. In that you’ll see where I discuss the Terms of Use and even touch on one of the major issues that tends to get people in trouble, which is VPN. But that’s about the most that can be said, honestly.