Gold Sellers, Pushing it over the limit?
DarkGanni
Am I the only that gets these or?
Stormlord Alex
Oh, I got one the other day.
Should've reported in all honesty...
But instead, I wispered back "hi. i like pie. do u like pie? that's nice. can you touch my boobs nao?"
... yup. >.>
Should've reported in all honesty...
But instead, I wispered back "hi. i like pie. do u like pie? that's nice. can you touch my boobs nao?"
... yup. >.>
Maria stormshield
I got that too, I just ignored it.
lucifer_uk
Just ignore it or report it.
Isileth
Ive had 5 of these over the last 3 days now. Always the same site.
DarkGanni
Thanks for the replies everyone, I think I'll just report his butt over 
Diablo???
Holy cow that gold seller pm'd you with an AD? That's ridiculous!?! The audacity! If only there's more we can do than just reporting them...
Series
Hey Luke, what's up?
Zahr Dalsk
I get these every now and then, I take screenshots but I never get around to reporting it. I usually just add them to ignore list for a while.
RPGmaniac
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Originally Posted by Stormlord Alex
Oh, I got one the other day.
Should've reported in all honesty... But instead, I wispered back "hi. i like pie. do u like pie? that's nice. can you touch my boobs nao?" ... yup. >.> |
Yama Sutra
I received a simular message, took a screenshot , and reported it ....
Roo Ella
Got the same thing too and it was within 10 min of me "W T B" something for a resanable ammount in the trade channel.
Guess they watch the trade chat and note down names or it was just a coincedence.
Either way it IS against the EULA to buy gold.
Guess they watch the trade chat and note down names or it was just a coincedence.
Either way it IS against the EULA to buy gold.
Vilaptca
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Originally Posted by Stormlord Alex
Oh, I got one the other day.
Should've reported in all honesty... But instead, I wispered back "hi. i like pie. do u like pie? that's nice. can you touch my boobs nao?" ... yup. >.> |
They never replied
=HT=Ingram
they are desperate for business. the word is out. using it period is a bannable offense. Now that they are going after BOTH sides of the transaction, its hurting their illegal business model. that and Anet closing a install loophole that they were exploiting for literally 1000s of trial accounts that never actually got used, just plugged into in order to deal their advertising spam for 14days at a time. Add to it that their prices are skyrocketing because of lack of inventory from banned farm bots... Its a good day to be a GW player. Gold resellers banning is always a great day. Now that they are PMing people to advertise, they are sorely mistaken to think that can not be tracked by Anet at a report... Every aspect of the game can be checked on demand. So this is disturbing, but it shows how naive these people truly are. That they think they are protected in doing it in this way... Just keep reporting them folks. they are in their death throws as we speak. All the better I say.
max gladius
I too have gotten these pms, mainly over last few days, i was figuring it was random bots in random towns, till they started when i was in missions....
In towns, they can have a bot run around and select closest person, then Control and Enter to select name to whisper, then spam whatever, they could easily do this with Tabbing also.....
I think it was probably your name was picked up from one in a town, then they can just list them, or copy them to something, bots can do about anything a human can....
just my 2 cents...
Also, trial keys, trial accounts cant trade, but they sure can pm and all that... so these wont be easy to just "get rid of"
In towns, they can have a bot run around and select closest person, then Control and Enter to select name to whisper, then spam whatever, they could easily do this with Tabbing also.....
I think it was probably your name was picked up from one in a town, then they can just list them, or copy them to something, bots can do about anything a human can....
just my 2 cents...
Also, trial keys, trial accounts cant trade, but they sure can pm and all that... so these wont be easy to just "get rid of"
Ghost Recon
Just ignore them I can't be bothered to report them, it is a waste of my time as I doubt A-net will do anything anyway.
Holly Herro
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Originally Posted by DarkGanni
Am I the only that gets these or? |
But I used to play WoW *throws up* and you used to get them all the time, PMs,mail box, they'd join your party and stuff.
Vl Vl D
I was told from a ex-guildie that they pm people from their customer data base which have brought from them in the past,but im sure he is mistaken thoe.
zwei2stein
I think it is enough just enough to spend lot of time in district 1. Preferably taking active part in trade spam.
Spaming trade chat = You either WTS and want money. Or WTB and could use more money. Ideal customer filter.
Spaming trade chat = You either WTS and want money. Or WTB and could use more money. Ideal customer filter.
MirkoTeran
I got the exact same message last night 3 times while I was doing dungeons. It is getting annoying as hell.
Zorgy
"...that they pm people from their customer data base which have brought from them in the past.."
This is not TRUE = I never make business & 10 days ago in ToA, I received such a message. A very POLITE message, I replied that it wasnt interesting me & I got a reply of the "BOT" (which is not) saying that it may be usefull sometimes.....
This is not TRUE = I never make business & 10 days ago in ToA, I received such a message. A very POLITE message, I replied that it wasnt interesting me & I got a reply of the "BOT" (which is not) saying that it may be usefull sometimes.....
Enko
from what i've seen they look at people in the party search window. i usually leave 2 or 3 characters in there to sell stuff and i got whispers on all of them from top to bottom according to their location on the list.
dragonofinfinity
i seem to be one of the only people who has never receved a PM offering me gold selling.
Sinnocent
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Originally Posted by dragonofinfinity
i seem to be one of the only people who has never receved a PM offering me gold selling.
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To whoever said that he heard from a person that these bots are just messaging people who've already bought gold; you shouldn't believe everything. As I'm sure 99% of the people here who have stated, including myself, I've never, ever, purchased online gold. I work for my gold. I don't buy into the lazy mans method of aquiring things. I will even state here, I welcome ANet, with my full permission to view and even post publicaly, my Gold balance history to see for themselves that at no point in my GW playing history have I suddenly received 100K worth of gold in a single automated transaction.
To make the assumption that only those who get the spam have already bought it online is a very dangerous assumption to make, especially with no proof to back it up. Furthermore, it makes no sense anyways for the selling company to spam current, or past customers. They're looking to make money and expand customers. That means marketing to players that haven't bought.
More than likely those that run the spam bots are literally sitting in various towns and outposts and literally writing down Character names. It's obviously a slow process to do it like that, but if you think about it, it would explain the slow rise in the spam and the slow rise in the amount of people who are receiving it.
arcady
What language is that message in anyway?
I can't figure heads or tails of it.
I can't figure heads or tails of it.
zwei2stein
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Originally Posted by Sinnocent
Join Date: Jul 2007
Character: Lord Sinnocence Guild: Gunslingers of Gilead Profession: D/ |
Simple, easy source of character names. All they have to do is to spider popular forums and locate character names who are guaranteed to have "<div> Chraracter: " prefix and ends with "</div>".
Its one afternoon work if you never did it before. (i should know, i wrote such thing myself thou for different use.)
Yes, people have all kinds of stuff in that box, but that can be corrected or discarded automatically if text does not fit possible character name.
Andisa Kalorn
I've had this happen on two accounts. One wasn't really a surprise because I was trading in Kamadan at the time. But the other one was. That account doesn't trade nor has character names on any forum.
All I had done that day was go through Lion's Arch on my way to somewhere in Tyria. I thought that maybe they were sitting in the major towns and just writing down names. If that's how they're getting names, then there's no avoiding them if you move between continents.
All I had done that day was go through Lion's Arch on my way to somewhere in Tyria. I thought that maybe they were sitting in the major towns and just writing down names. If that's how they're getting names, then there's no avoiding them if you move between continents.
Yarly
Maybe it was your leet warrior fow that attracted them to you..
Sniper22
I got them when i was buying ectos and shards
AngeloM3
I think they have some kind of logger that logs all the people that come into a certain city.... and then "x" amount of time later or right away they message the person.
I was in LA... and I was looking for a guildie out of about 5 dis's. So I was quickly leaving one dis, going into another, leaving, entering etc.... It seemed like every other time I entered I got a message within 5sec's of being there.
Also I was in HA last night... made a brand new pvp char... went into HA Int dis1 not more than 5min later I got a whisper.
I was in LA... and I was looking for a guildie out of about 5 dis's. So I was quickly leaving one dis, going into another, leaving, entering etc.... It seemed like every other time I entered I got a message within 5sec's of being there.
Also I was in HA last night... made a brand new pvp char... went into HA Int dis1 not more than 5min later I got a whisper.
gasmaskman
Does everyone forget Diablo 2? They spam you while you're sitting in the game (imagine the spam in an outpost).
wolfwing
Well one thing to think about with them pming you as soon as you log in, there are only a few spots where players will spawn and some like Kamadan where they are within view of each other, they probably just check for new names popping in.
Molock
I remember getting those.. I reported them..
Anet probably didn't do anything.. they we're too busy rushing GW:EN for some quick cash.
Anet probably didn't do anything.. they we're too busy rushing GW:EN for some quick cash.
DarthFlesh
i got some too, but the odd thing is that they were while i was at AB =///
Digital Bath
I used to get em all the time when I played WoW. You could be anywhere and they basically would message hack so that the whole area received the same damn spam message. Then people came up with spam blockers, so blizz copied it and implemented it, making it great. Basically it caught the message, told you it was spam, then you could auto report it. After that, they resorted back to making raids and them spamming the whole time till you left. To make it funnier, they did one in Iron Forge where a bunch of Gnomes died in mid air spelling out the name of the website across the entrance to the bank and AH. Basically, once they arrive, good luck getting rid of em. They are worse than the plague.
zamial
I too have fallen prey to the spam whispering, not just me but all of my guildies in the group, within seconds of arriving in an almost empty outpost. We all added him to the ignore list and moved on. but this is infuriating. someone should start a petition to have a-net make the approved whispers list. Something like a friends list but way longer and add in a better status like not receiving unapproved whispers. I am an honest player and have not, nor ever, done things to violate the EULA and people that do and get away with it really piss me off........
aapo
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Originally Posted by zamial
I too have fallen prey to the spam whispering, not just me but all of my guildies in the group, within seconds of arriving in an almost empty outpost. We all added him to the ignore list and moved on. but this is infuriating. someone should start a petition to have a-net make the approved whispers list. Something like a friends list but way longer and add in a better status like not receiving unapproved whispers. I am an honest player and have not, nor ever, done things to violate the EULA and people that do and get away with it really piss me off........
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I wish ANET developers would actually read these forums.
Keifru
If you put a spam filter in, you would have to turn it off and on if your selling and such; And sometimes you get random people that will PM you for various reasons (I know I've PMed some people who had names from books I've read/liked and I just chat with them for awile)
I havn't gotten a gold-seller site PM in about a month, but whenever I got one me and my guild would just spam them and put them on ignore for like 15 minutes for kicks.
Fun times.
I havn't gotten a gold-seller site PM in about a month, but whenever I got one me and my guild would just spam them and put them on ignore for like 15 minutes for kicks.
Fun times.
Dr Strangelove
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Originally Posted by Stormlord Alex
Oh, I got one the other day.
Should've reported in all honesty... But instead, I wispered back "hi. i like pie. do u like pie? that's nice. can you touch my boobs nao?" ... yup. >.> |
takahami
I got this message, a friend of mine as well. both of us got the message when we arrived at random arena. so i dont think that they spidered any forums, but scanned the random arena place for names, or propably other places as well. anyway, it doesnt matter how they got the names, the whole thing pretty sucks.