RMT Solution?

[Pandastirfry]

what's to stop them just using the Random Name generator on the character creation screen then?

and it's not like level locked chat restrictions work either, every game I've played that has them still have just as many spam bots.

Well I think from SE's end, if they catch someone spamming people, not only should the account be banned, but the IP address used to access that account be blocked permanently as well. That would go a good way to putting an end to that. Secondly, they should add an invisible mode for everyone else. These spammers are using the player search function to get names to whisper. If we the players can invisible mode ourselves off of the player search function, that would help us too.

Blocking IP's usually doesn't work either, 9 times out of 10 they're using a proxy anyway. and They're not using the ingame player search either usually it's an outside tool which also usually automates the /tell spam as well, and even in games with an anon mode (which XIV has) they'll still bring you up.

long story short; if it was as simple as many of the "RMT Solution" suggestions were....they'd have done it already.