Obnoxious new RMT advertisement strategy?

I usually spend like 80% of the day partied up with an alt so I didn't notice it till tonight.
I was doing beastmen dailies when I got a invite from rmt name then it got cancelled why I was trying to figure out why one was inviting me. It's basically a variant on the one where they were sending you endless friend requests with characters named after their websites.

Needless to say I partied myself back up again lol

How long has this been a thing? Is it /busy time again?

It happened to me 2 days ago. Yesterday I got nothing. The thing is how do they find you? I was in Ishgard and doing stuff in HW area and I got the invites. I checked their location and they were in New Gridania. How did they find me? I went to go look for them, but I couldn't find them.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

It happened to me 2 days ago. Yesterday I got nothing. The thing is how do they find you? I was in Ishgard and doing stuff in HW area and I got the invites. I checked their location and they were in New Gridania. How did they find me? I went to go look for them, but I couldn't find them.

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It probably goes in alphabetic order when searching for player names. Only way I can think of.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

It probably goes in alphabetic order when searching for player names. Only way I can think of.

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Ahh, just randomly typing names. Gotcha.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

It happened to me 2 days ago. Yesterday I got nothing. The thing is how do they find you? I was in Ishgard and doing stuff in HW area and I got the invites. I checked their location and they were in New Gridania. How did they find me? I went to go look for them, but I couldn't find them.

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There's a window where you can do a player search.
Including filters for classes/jobs/area/level/GC/language.

They probably go through that systematically on their bots.

While this is annoying, new threads everyday kinda annoy me, too.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/311327-So-i-just-received-a-party-invite-from-a-rmt-bot


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...as-a-char-name

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Originally Posted by SilkaN

While this is annoying, new threads everyday kinda annoy me, too.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/311327-So-i-just-received-a-party-invite-from-a-rmt-bot


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...as-a-char-name

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If you look at the date/time I posted it's within 10 mins of the oldest one - they probably posted it around the time I was forumlating my post. I was going to delete this when I saw the the other post that was around the same time as mine but SE didn't make it easy to find the delete thread option so I let it get buried. Blame the person that decided to post to a 2 day old post.

Edit: And as far as I can tell there is no way to delete the first post. (I see a delete option for this post but it wasn't available on my initial post)

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Originally Posted by Leknaat

If you look at the date/time I posted it's within 10 mins of the oldest one - they probably posted it around the time I was forumlating my post. I was going to delete this when I saw the the other post that was around the same time as mine but SE didn't make it easy to find the delete thread option so I let it get buried. Blame the person that decided to post to a 2 day old post.

Edit: And as far as I can tell there is no way to delete the first post. (I see a delete option for this post but it wasn't available on my initial post)

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My mistake. It was early in the morning (for me).

That's odd...this has never happened to me o.o.............Oh, that's right! I'm on a JP server.

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Originally Posted by Spy

That's odd...this has never happened to me o.o.............Oh, that's right! I'm on a JP server.

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Ok so what?

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Originally Posted by Spy

That's odd...this has never happened to me o.o.............Oh, that's right! I'm on a JP server.

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As if JP servers are immune from RMT.

It happened to me a few days ago, party invite for a while then cancel!...

Square Enix must give us the option to right-click report these players like we do with normal RMT /tells!...

Just got one here on Cerberus too. I reported him the old fashioned way.

Haven't had much time to log in lately. (work op) Thanks for the heads up on this, I will pay more attention to random invites instead of auto-declining.

Whomever might be behind the attacks could be reading this forum, I've received several RMT party invites tonight!... :(