thats the only way to my knowledge...They will not give back your account not money back...I have tried all those things... Adsense is stuburn
Whatever whoever say in this regard is not final except google own statement for your own case, so just write an email to them and who knows that you are another lucky person who gets your account back. Goodluck
What ever this guy started, cant believe that. There is a very fine checking done on the invalid clicks before google team bans someone. I have very varied data when I had over 50$ days and then it sometimes drop to less than 10. But i never made false clicks. And I never got any such mail from google. The guy is surely using false tactics or may be his friend is doing that. And how can a new publisher earn more than 1000$ in the starting month. Fishy. And I have even used google ads on warez and adult content. They warn you first. If you dont act smartly, they kick you.
It wont be strange for me if a new publisher earn $1000 for the first month, because the new publisher doesn't means a new webmaster, may be someone is using any other program except google adsense, and when he sign up with adsense and puts ad the real unique traffic earns him/her $1,000 so it is possible, I also agree with the rest of your statement.