Oh wow got absorbed in the game and RL... Well the gil spammers still go at it. I am not sure SE will ever fully stop them. Though found a way to at least lessen the burden. Make your own tab (can make one own chat tab) and call it whatever you wish for tells. Go into options for chat and enable tell in it. Apply then go to General tab, open options and disable the square that says Tell. Now all tells go just to that one tab you created for it, turn off tell sound and you can check tell at your own leisure if friends sent a tell. And the spams stop flooding general.