Afraid of RMTs need to end.

[Bluebun]

SE is actually combating RMT? We must not be playing the same game.
I login for a few hours on Sat. and received a dozen spams.

[Shirai]

SE is actually combating RMT? We must not be playing the same game.
I login for a few hours on Sat. and received a dozen spams.

I read this from a lot of Excalis.

On Sargatanas I can count the number of tells I get a week on one hand these days and I play almost every evening at EU prime time.
Aside from that, most of them don't even manage to send more than two tells in succession from the same character anymore so I hardly bother with blacklisting them anymore.

The only permanent entry on my blacklist is getting lonely.

[Airikay]

I read this from a lot of Excalis.

On Sargatanas I can count the number of tells I get a week on one hand these days and I play almost every evening at EU prime time.
Aside from that, most of them don't even manage to send more than two tells in succession from the same character anymore so I hardly bother with blacklisting them anymore.

The only permanent entry on my blacklist is getting lonely.

It has to do with how many people are actually buying RMT Gil. Its still a/business, why would they waste money on buying a lot of accounts on servers where they would get less money. My server has em pretty bad too, which is kind of surprising since were suppose to be a medium to low pop server.

[BamDeafPie]

How do people buy gils without gettig caught?

[Shirai]

How do people buy gils without gettig caught?

While there is no completely undetectable way there are ways to stay "below the radar" so to speak.
How exactly, I cannot tell.

All the ways I can think of are all ways that raise alarm bells, on the other hand, why should RMT care what happens if a buyer gets caught. They have their real cash anyway.

[Delsus]

How do people buy gils without gettig caught?

It's mostly because it's not practical for SE to scan every account for a sudden increase in gil in real time, such a method would cause a lot of strain on servers, and even if the did they would have to be able to prove that the gil came from rmt sources.

RMT aren't stupid, they will have their spam bots on a separate account to the bank characters, the gil making bots separate to the bank characters etc when someone buys gil it would be traded from the bank characters, the spam bots get instantly banned (the obvious rmt) but the bots are actually harder to ban for rmt activites, all SE can see is that they are botting, the bot then sold some money and traded the proceeds. The bot then gets banned for cheating and using third party software. The money however is still around on a bank character, which then gets sold to a buyer.

If you look at this another way, I farm loads of gil and decide to help a friend out, trade 1m gil to them, that could look like rmt on SE's servers, should I get banned for helping a friend out, or my friend getting banned? That's how people buy without getting caught, it's impossible to differentiate between a legit player helping another player and someone transferring gil that has been bought.

This is also why SE are attacking the bots, they are the easy ones to ban.