[2.0] Players can no longer send friend requests when playing with a free trial account.
* Players can still receive friend requests when playing with a free trial account.


This is likely implemented to prevent the very spam you are talking about. It won't stop the bots that are part of active non trial accounts but it will cut down on quite a bit of the spam friend invites.

Now I wish there was a quick link Report spam button but they seem incapable if implementing such a thing.