I don't believe so, Rosie. I think Ban Requests are still what they are, in that; they are the community standing against hackers in the case that they don't pay 11 dollars.
I wanted to put a poll on this thread, but couldn't figure out how. The sad part of this Ban Request is that it comes from a player that has less than 7 hours playtime, so it's likely a dummy account or it's a player that will probably never come back. Both are unfortunate scenarios that we couldn't act or react more quickly.
EDIT:
After looking him up on stats, it seems that he's been here a few times over the last week. Wanted to find out if it was a dummy account but he is the only one with his IP address. I'll see if I can dig anything else up about him.