Have Gold Spammers gone too far?

So, whilst ATMA farming, I got a random friend request. I accepted it out of curiousity. Minutes later, and I get a letter. Oh boy, what could it be? Running over to a delivery moogle, THIS is what I get:

http://i.imgur.com/ncVitl0.jpg


Really now? Of course I deleted the acc from my friend's list, but SE needs to find some way to filter out these bots. Not much of a productive thread, I'm just ranting. Feel free to make suggestions on how to end this menace in replies.

Not trying to point out the obvious but they do have a filter, you can only get mail from people on your friend list.... In other words don't friend people you don't know.

Also /busy stops you from getting /tells. this one sucks but it's the only work around we got.

This is nothing new. Gold sellers will spam friend requests then spam your inbox should you accept their request.

And you might want to blot out the spammer's web address since it's against the rules and we sure as hell don't want to give them any more free advertising.

Good point. One sec, MS paint editing time

This isn't going to far...they went too far when they started existing.

This has been going on for at least 4 months now. Unless I know the person I don't accept random friend requests.

He probably noticed you only have 43k gil and wanted to help you out.


Just teasing :P

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Originally Posted by kyuven

This isn't going to far...they went too far when they started existing.

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They only exist because there are some players whom are too lazy to put in a minimum of effort to farm gil. In other words, there is a demand for RMT services, and these services will continue to exist so long as there are people willing to use them.

One thing I do to see if it's a Gold Sell, go to your friends list to see where they are if their a LV1 Class in a starting city it's most likely a gill seller.

The gil prices I've seen are so high that I couldn't afford to buy them even if I wanted to. I guess there's some people out there who play the game who can afford it, but I'd wager not many...?

i always get a /tell first then random friend invite from same person u gotta go into friendslist to refuse it....

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Originally Posted by Ryuden

I deleted the acc from my friend's list

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Removing someone from your friends list only removes them from your list. It does NOT remove you from theirs. Enjoy!

OP, you can't send post to people who are not on your friends list. You've added a gold spammer to your friends list.

Thankfully I haven't gotten a friend request in a few months (probably just jinxed myself). Has anyone noticed how freaky their messages are now? In addition to the crap they spew, they always add some crap like "We deserve to live" or "We deserve existence" at the end of the message. It freaks me out. The robots are gaining sentience.

The only way I have eliminated them from my logs is to deactivate the Tell from my logs. If anyone wants to talk to me, they are either on my Linkshells or they are in my FC.

I have an idea... Do what EVE Online does. Allow players to set a monetary sum that must be paid before a tell can be sent to them from anyone not in their known circles. IE Linkshells/FC/friends list. It takes from the whole "My time is money" saying... Trust me when i tell you that if you take enough of their gil away just to advertise, then it would be in their best interest to find way outside of the game to do so

I don't know if that would be very effective, considering that even with blacklisting on top of this, gil sellers will still send the ocassional shout. Not to mention it would screw over people who want to send a tell to someone for legitimate reasons. I sure as hell wouldn't bother talking to someone if I'd have to start paying them.

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Thankfully I haven't gotten a friend request in a few months (probably just jinxed myself). Has anyone noticed how freaky their messages are now? In addition to the crap they spew, they always add some crap like "We deserve to live" or "We deserve existence" at the end of the message. It freaks me out. The robots are gaining sentience.

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Lol. "The robots are gaining sentience." I love it. The tells I've been getting lately usually start with, "Sorry to bother you…" Either that or I can think of one I got today that had somewhere in the message something like, "We want to be the best, we offer the best service, we are here to keep you happy…" or some crazy crap like that. It really is starting to get weird. So weird I actually have started reading their messages hoping for some more crazy one liners. Maybe that's the point?

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Originally Posted by SniperWolfMGS

I have an idea... Do what EVE Online does. Allow players to set a monetary sum that must be paid before a tell can be sent to them from anyone not in their known circles. IE Linkshells/FC/friends list. It takes from the whole "My time is money" saying... Trust me when i tell you that if you take enough of their gil away just to advertise, then it would be in their best interest to find way outside of the game to do so

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Because RMT bots are short of gil apparently XD, they are selling gil!

"existence is reasonable, let's make things better" is my favorite one

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Originally Posted by kyuven

This isn't going to far...they went too far when they started existing.

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Just remember, they continue existing because of sad pathetic gamers with really large epeen complexes who are only interested in instantly get ahead of everyone instead of actually playing a video game so that they can flaunt their 'eliteness' around when they really suck at games and should probably uninstall their internet so people like us can finally be free from them.

me and a few Fc member have gotten friend request and spam /tells i jusy Blist/ decline but next month might not be fun when the golden saucer is out i bet alot of RMT will spamming player with /tell /sh and /yells for Gil for people to get coins for the surcer

There's a limit to the amount of saucer coins you can buy for gil, so only stupid people are going to be buying gil for that purpose ..

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Originally Posted by Millerna

There's a limit to the amount of saucer coins you can buy for gil, so only stupid people are going to be buying gil for that purpose ..

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"Only stupid people". So a lot of people then? TwT

where you been at buddy they been doing this for near 5 months now, nothing new here. they usually do it after a tell so just make a macro to deny request

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Originally Posted by Novaura

The only way I have eliminated them from my logs is to deactivate the Tell from my logs. If anyone wants to talk to me, they are either on my Linkshells or they are in my FC.

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This^^ i do the same and go months without thinking about RMT, tells are pointless if you aren't in ls fc or party i got nothing to say to you

Hi,
If you accept their friend req., you're at risk for malware, virus, keylogger

Spambot owners utilize DLL injection, code injection, etc,
to disrupt the client and seize your gaming.
This was documented at DEFCON.

Spambot software will often seize up your abilities to deny
the friend request until the spam bot cycles to the next victim.
Recently, a gamemaster came into
the chat box and worked with me to try to return my
friend request function back to normal. It took over 20
minutes to get the spambot to release this function. Even
after he banned the spambot, it still took time to get the
friend request function to normalize.

So, what does all this mean? Spambot owners are hardened
criminals, arrogant, vindictive just like drug lords. They
are mindless sicko sociopath scum-bag, sub-human scammers!

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

Because RMT bots are short of gil apparently XD, they are selling gil!

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But the spam bots arent the ones with the gil ^_^ They create level 1 chars and as soon as they are in world they run their 3rd party app/macro/whatevs that spams everyone.

Those characters have no gil.