A curiosity on RMT spam

[Violyre]

I received a tell/friend request when I was going through the intro cutscene in Limsa. Not even a chance to move my character.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi Violyre,

Thank you for bringing this up. Having endured the insidious RMT spam-houses for a year, this is way to frequent to be considered coincidental:

Anytime I perform an action which causes the hotbar to temporarily disappear (blacklist macro is on my hotbar) the giant HK based RMT corporation sends spam into the / Tell chat. Examples are usually when the retainer is summoned, or use of market board, or any other action that disables hotbar.

I submit that RMT spammers detect user actions, and program their bots to send spam into the victim's chat box upon any action that disables the hotbar [containing the blist macro}. Spammers are likely to be intercepting and modifying the network data-stream packets, given that ordinary users have no way to detect another users login or other actions. Hope is that Square Enix personnel will mitigate any vulnerabilities that allow RMT employees to hack into their network.