Is CoD Boosting Safe? What Activision's Rules Say About Bans

Every player asks this before their first order, and you deserve a straight answer instead of a sales line. Boosting carries real risk. Activision's rules count boosting as a violation, penalties land on your account, and no shop can promise your account stays untouched. Here is what the rules actually say, what tends to get accounts actioned, how the two delivery methods compare, and what we do on every order.

What Activision's rules say about boosting

The official Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy lists boosting as its own violation. It describes boosting as exploiting the game to gain XP, prestige, score, weapon levels or unlocks.

The policy also makes the account holder responsible for everything that happens on the account, no matter who was playing at the time.

What that means for you:

• Any penalty hits your account. Not the booster's, not ours.
• Activision decides what counts. The policy does not publish a detailed list of what it treats as exploiting, so nobody outside Activision can tell you exactly where the line is.
• Penalties come in many sizes. The policy lists warnings, temporary bans, permanent bans, limited matchmaking, Ranked Play restrictions, stat resets and leaderboard removal. Only permanent bans can be appealed.

What usually gets accounts actioned

• Cheat software and unauthorized tools. Aimbots, wallhacks, trainers and anything that touches the game client. This is the clearest, fastest route to a ban.
• Methods built on gaming the system. Tricks that manipulate matchmaking or stats, like deliberately tanking games to get easier lobbies, fit the policy's idea of exploiting most obviously.
• Payment trouble. The policy also lists fraudulently obtained CoD Points as a violation.

Got a warning in Warzone or MW4?

A warning or a temporary ban is Activision telling you it noticed something on the account. Stop whatever triggered it, whether you did it yourself or someone did it for you, and don't stack a second strike on top. Temporary penalties can't be appealed under the policy, only permanent bans can, through Activision's own support site.

Piloted vs self-play, what changes

• Coaching involves no account access and no boosted progress at all. You get better, the account only records what you play yourself. That is exactly what our Warzone coaching sessions are.
• Self-play carries keep your login with you, because you play in a squad with a pro. You still gain progress with help, so the policy question above still applies.
• Piloted orders mean a verified pro plays on your account with your login. On PC they play in offline mode through a VPN matched to your region. Rather not share your login? On PS5 you can use PlayStation QR sign-in instead. Because someone else is playing, the policy line about the account holder being responsible applies directly.

We break the two delivery methods down in detail in piloted vs self-play boosting.

What we do on every order

• Hand-played, never cheats. Every MW4, BO7, Warzone and DMZ boost is played by a verified pro with no cheats, tools or bots.
• No matchmaking tricks. No reverse boosting and no VPN tricks to land easier lobbies. Our bot lobbies are our own private lobbies with our own bots, with no stat manipulation.
• Verified boosters only. Every pro passes identity verification (KYC) before they take an order.
• Only what the order needs. We touch the game the order is for and nothing else on your account.
• Full visibility. You follow the whole order in your own order chat, and if it isn't delivered as described, you get your money back.

What you should never do

• Don't charge back a completed order.
• Don't post your login anywhere public.

The honest bottom line

Boosting breaks Activision's rules, penalties land on the account holder, and no shop can promise otherwise. If that risk isn't for you, that's a completely fair call: 1-on-1 coaching involves no account access, and our free guides help you grind it yourself. If you decide to go ahead, we keep every boost hand-played, free of tools and tracked in your order chat, from camo boosts to a ranked boost.