I have a hunch that reporting for RMT may have worked because while the STF and GMs suck at identifying bots, they seem much better at tracking suspicious gil transfers; to such an extent that I've heard stories of players who weren't actually involved in RMT being contacted out of the blue because they were transferring several million gil to either an alt or a friend.

There's some kind of Aether DC-wide shard farming operation going on using a series of FCs named "***HUB" (With the asterisks being shorthand for the server name, so CacHUB in the case of my server) that are populated by a single max level DoL bot that does nothing but aetherial reduction in HW and SB areas so perhaps I'll see if I can get rid of them using the same tactic.