Bring back a /anon feature that counters RMT Spam bots.

[KaedrianLiang]

Eh.

There was an instance where an account was compromised because the account owner visited one of those account buying and selling websites that offer account value appraisals by entering your email. Once these websites get a hold of your email, your mail box will be littered with emails pretending to be the parent company of the game through suspension threats or promotions, asking you to login to your account through their provided link in the email to respond.

The phisher went as far as accurately IP and MAC address spoofing their machine to resemble the real account owner, so they managed to login on a level cap character and send out mass /tells about their appraisal website. It was dealt with swiftly. and a follow up general announcement from GM department to under no circumstances visit that website was sent out to players that received the spam. The investigation found that the Phisher used the parent website to retrieve a list of character names, there are countermeasures in place to prevent a bot from freely reviewing the website so it must have been an actual person that copy pasta'ed each name and put it on a notepad list.

That was a black unicorn occurrence where such a website managed to phish that much information about the account owner. The filter algorithm was upped to level cap level, after this event.

Bots have come very far since then, and are fully capable of reaching level cap in ffxiv, and in a short time where they can bypass any filter or procedure thats set up to regularly ban them