As much as I hate receiving RMT spam, I have to disagree with ideas of adding even more limits to accounts because I believe it would just hurt genuine new players.

It's already harsh enough than when someone is in a trial they are already very isolated (they can't really message anyone, can't join a FC, can't shout and they can't even create their own party (someone has to invite them), but right now if someone puts down money for the game then those restrictions are lifted and punishing new players (who need help the most) just to try and combat RMT spam seems very unfair and will only give them a negative impact of the game.

Someone in this thread (sorry can't remember who) said about not being able to send messages until level 10, but I'm afraid that's nothing more than a 15 minute deterrent for RMT (I've ran in parties with my own FC where we've power levelled other FC members up to level 10 across all combat jobs and that takes no more than an hour to do every job they have!). But for a real, first time player, it'll probably take them hours to get to level 10, if not more. They won't know where they're going/fastest way to level up, they're also running around doing all the quests (probably). It basically just punishes the real player and is just a tiny inconvenience for the RMT.

Someone else (sorry also can't remember who!) said about having to have 40 hours (which would be end of new adventurer flag) before you can whisper, but I think that's also just going to cause more problems for real players. RMT could literally log on and just wait/idle 2 days (do things with other characters in the meantime?). For them it's no bother, for real players...?

It'd be nice if SE could be more proactive in dealing with RMT and not batch them up each week, but actually investigate the reports as they come in (not saying act on every report instantly, but if the same person is reported 10+ times then they should be moved up the queue of people to look at). It'd also be nice if there were an easier way to actually report someone as right now it seems like a lot of hoops to jump through and most people probably just blacklist and (try to) move on.