RMT and the STF: What has been going on?

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Maybe they haven't actually sold their gil yet, just stockpiling it.

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This ^ more than likely.
As soon as they start unloading it they'll get banned. Why ban someone you know is paying the monthly fee before they can link it to more RMT accounts?

If anything, putting the character on the STF's watchlist will make more of the gil laundering accounts get banned along with that character as soon as one of them finally does an RMT transaction.

they need to just start banning their IP adresses, its rediculus. they been around longer then a few weeks

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Originally Posted by Natenn

they need to just start banning their IP adresses, its rediculus. they been around longer then a few weeks

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Unfortunately IP addresses change, and can be easily spoofed (proxy). I don't think there's much they can do short of reactive measures.

I got a Brosale.com /tell the other day in Adoulin for the first time in years (since not long after the /tell spam filter was introduced). No sooner had I reported it, as I got another one from another character, which I also reported immediately.

Haven't seen another one since, so the filter was obviously updated accordingly.

If you ask me though, SE should ban anyone who hasn't got the spam filter for /tells turned on. These people obviously want to know the best deals from the RMT websites! ;p

I hate the filter because sometimes my tells I am sending to friends get blocked, it tells me, and I spend 5 minutes altering my tell to let my friend know that there is a shout he needs... which is gone now. I have done that, not always, normally I am smart enough to just break it up into 5 tells so it leaves me alone, but in either case it can be annoying at times, so I leave mine off, not like I pay any attention or care about RMT tells anyways and they are a minor annoyance.

Is it a specific message that lets you know about the filter, or just generic request could not be processed?

if it's specific, I don't think I've ever had a tell blocked by it. Then again, maybe I'm the only one with the filter on?

Its a specific message, something to the effect of... 'Your message was blocked by the Spam Filter, please try again'

Only time I'm ever able to trigger the spam filter is if i say like "% Sale" or something in the same sentence back-to-back. Yesterday a friend tried to tell me about a Clothing sale they went too and got it filtered, but, I mean, Its pretty specific. What were you trying to say?