Quote Originally Posted by Evantide View Post
It won't matter if they can get into the new expansion content because they write down your name and spam you where ever you are. I get friend requests, and tells from them when I am in any zone. I always see it comes from a lvl 1 character in ul'dah.
Oh wow are you ever naive.

Here's what they do:
They do a search (since it tops out at 200) and have separate spammers sending spam to everyone using certain criteria. For example if you are in Limsa, you get spam bots that are using Limsa as their search criteria. If you go to Uldah, you get those bots. They might all still be standing in Uldah. They have no reason to go anywhere else since they cant shout/yell spam.

But people's accounts that are taken over (likely because they bought from RMT's) are the ones that do the shout/yell spam.