Quote Originally Posted by moudoka View Post
You don't have to own the internet to force a site to shut down for exploiting and illegally profiting off your IP. Which brings me, once again, to the point, either SE simply refuses to do anything about it, or they are in bed with WTSGG. The amount of spam I get from those bots is insane.
When you see the ads on Youtube, third-party sites, and basically any gaming-replated site, click the > and go "I wish to report a problem with this ad" and just outright report the ad as fraud.

The websites I operate, every week or so I do a search for "gold" "game" "gil" "wow" "ffxi" "ffxiv" "archeage", etc in the ad networks to catch trash like this. It can be hard to proactively block these, but they are always from Chinese companies, or non-US companies, which is why the trash ads tend to show up more frequently for people who don't live in the US.

And they are ALL fraud.

If you are on the legacy servers, the average amount of RMT spam is like hours apart except during the window that new characters can be created.

Also keep in mind that if you see RMT/gil farming bots, report them with the reporting system in the game. Bots typically:
- Stack on each other
- All wear the same gear, and appear in the same general location, often well below the level that players would actually wear.
- Rank only only the minimum needed (nearly always the minimum for Black Mage)
- Follow the exact same path in a pattern (typical of Mining/Botany)
- Stand on top of map-specific nodes (chests, mining, harvesting)