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You probably have enough history with Google to get away with it.

What they likely do is have several flags that push an account closer to being autobanned, so it's not just one thing, but a combination that gets you knocked out. I'd imagine a list like:

  Using scammer friendly credit card: -10 points

  Used a TOR exit node: -20 points
  
  Account age < 2 years: -15 points

  Account spend < $1000US: -10 points

  Service being advertised is not well known to Google's data mining: -10 points

  etc...
Get enough demerits and your account is toast, and since people are expensive once a bot flags the account you don't really have a recourse. Ironically if you want your ad to continue to run the best people to talk to probably isn't Google's tech support but black market scammers who have built and industry around understanding and circumventing these protections.


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