WHY IS THERE STILL RMT SPAM!?

[reality_check]

I refuse to believe that after over a decade of MMORPG development that Square Enix has been unable to make some sort of RMT detection algorithm to block RMT spam.

I mean, it's not like every single tell isn't coming from a Chinese IP on a level 1 character with a name that resembles something a cat walking across the keyboard would make--oh wait.

Or, at least give us /away or /busy command to block all tells.

Just please, DO SOMETHING. It. Is. So. Annoying.

[Nalien]

Or, at least give us /away or /busy command to block all tells.

That's already a thing.

[RumiP]

Cause people are buying.

[mikecoby]

Dude, if its a mmo, there will be rmt.

you can do /away

[Muzy]

Wait, give us those, no not gonna ha-... Wait, we already have /busy and /away, and yes, they do block tells, or at least /busy does.

[reality_check]

Thanks. /away in FFXI used to block tells. I just assumed it didn't when I tried it and still got tells.

/busy = success. I am very happy now.

[Alkimi]

I've had maybe one tell in the last week. Dunno what it's like on your server but it's hardly what I'd call "spam".

[Muzy]

I've had maybe one tell in the last week. Dunno what it's like on your server but it's hardly what I'd call "spam".

Diabolos has been getting bombed with RMT the past couple weeks, it was quiet for a while before that, so, dunno.

[Penguinmayhem]

I've had maybe one tell in the last week.

I've had three different gibberish names /telling me the same copypaste text five times a minute simultaneously. A tell every thirty seconds is pretty much average.

Also, you'd think SE would have figured out by now that they all have completely unpronounceable garbage for character names.

[Keeroh]

So, the problem here is that the RMT spammers often get "speaker" characters through stolen account info. These aren't people riding on a free trial like most games. And with the random name generator, there's no point in putting in a gibberish name filter. The only thing they can do from their standpoint is crack down on them as much as possible.
When you get a tell, just blacklist them.
The only things that would stop the spam would also severely hinder the experience for legitimate players. You'd have to enable things like CAPTCHA codes for whispers on low-level characters (and holy moley that would cause an uproar) or to completely disable lowbies from whispers, which would be even worse.
Just blacklist them. No game can truly remove them without encroaching on the positive experience for the actual players.