Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
No, but I'm willing to bet the vast majority of them are. There's no money to be made in advertising if every new bot costs you $40. Besides, I doubt it's merely coincidence that the explosion in RMT spam happens to fall around the same date as the Chinese release.
The bots don't cost the spammers anything. They use stolen CC info (from gil buyers) or abuse charge backs to avoid actually paying sub's.