Then the rules are quite different for AdWords. For Google Play Store accounts, "termination" means that your primary account, as well as any "related" account (what Google's algorithms determine to be operated by the same person/company), are all eternally banned from the Play Store. Attempts to open any new account will be subjected to the same algorithm and get automatically rejected if determined to be "related" to the previously banned account.

I am not making this up. Some indie Android developers have ended up in pretty Kafkaesque situations with their livelihoods (Play Store accounts) terminated without any explanation or human recourse, and with any attempts to circumvent the ban only leading to more trouble.

> any attempts to circumvent the ban only leading to more trouble

Is this a figure of speech, and not a literal situation? If you’ve already been banned, failing to circumvent that ban ultimately only leads to the same outcome: still being banned?

Or is there further punitive actions taken?

These bans seem to be completely automated. But if the developer did manage to get a human being to take a look at their case, any attempts to circumvent the ban would surely not look favorable.

> because different teams within Google don't talk to one another

Let's say they fix that at some point in future. Suddenly you will find yourself banned.

I get why this is hard for Google - there are probably thousands of scam accounts who've been banned making scam appeals all the time. They don't want to give those people a script to follow to get all their accounts unbanned, but if you are giving them money, they should generally be able to afford to have a real human look at your case.