Spammers bypassing filters Pleae fix.

[Maroger]

<p>I received 3 tells within 5 minutes this morning. I had to turn off Tell. Text was tll the game from level 1 Frogloks on Queens Islands.</p><p>MSG: No advanced Armors? Not enough plats? Why not come to <a href="http://www.xx/###.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.xx###.com</a> (###=wxxxxx) You will find the greatest enjoyment here.</p><p>Of course I have put in "x" for the actual letters the spammer used.</p><p>Hope this gets fixed spoon.</p>

[Gladiia]

<p>/report any that get thru.  The people that take care of that don't come to these forums afaik.</p><p> I haven't seen one get thru in....crud, I can't remember how long.  It's been a total of one make it thru in many months though.  But if something is getting thru, they need to know, so it can get taken care of asap.</p>

[Mystfit]

The spam filter has been working tremendously well. I haven't received a spam in WEEKS. So, they get creative and get one through. Report the spam, they'll get on it, but honestly, it's working well enought that a thread evrey time one breaks through doesn't seem all the necessary.

[Effie]

<p>This is not the correct avenue to report spam tells.</p><p>In-game you need only to right click the offending tell/spam and select the appropriate menu choice.</p><p>The spam filters are updated very quickly.</p>

[Vonotar]

<cite>Effie wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>This is not the correct avenue to report spam tells.</p><p>In-game you need only to right click the offending tell/spam and select the appropriate menu choice.</p><p>The spam filters are updated very quickly.</p></blockquote>Exactly.Fact is that *some* tells will always get through, until the first people who recieve them use the right-click "report as Spam" option.Basically we are filtering spam for each other, an ideal system since SoE can't monitor every tell sent.

[Loolee]

Yup, I got one this morning too.  Just /report it and forget about it.  They have been doing an amazing job keeping the spammers at bay.  This is the first one I've had in ages.Thanks guys!!!  *huggles*

[Elendhelie]

I only ever seen the spam filter message. I accidentally made a character on Najena, and was there less than 5 minutes and had 3 spams. O,o. On my regular server, when I came back to EQ2, I had 4 spam mails in my box. Ive not see a one since.So, even if SOE screws up on a regular basis, they do an amazing job with spam filtering.

[Freliant]

Got several blocked messeged on my Sarnak... then I blocked spam tells... got on my 80 Wizzy, and I have gotten a few tells in full text, like the op stated. I went ahead and reported it, so it should be fixed soon enough.

[Jrral]

First off, as noted, if you see the full text of the spam just right-click on any spam tells that get through and select "Report as spam". That'll instantly submit the tell to the program that updates the spam filters, and to the humans who monitor the filters. Don't bother with /report or /petition on spam.Second, right-click on your chat tab and look at the message-type checkboxes. In the same group as tells you'll find a new checkbox labelled "Spam". Tells that are marked as spam by the filters still come through but with their text suppressed and replaced by a "Spam" label. Don't report these, they're already in the filter. If you don't want to see them, just uncheck the "Spam" checkbox to remove them from your display. Do this on every chat tab and filtered spam tells should disappear entirely.

[Ama]

<p>Have to deffinately applaud the SoE developers for their plat filter.  Best thing I love is the fact I can simply turn off the spamms I get [spam] as;ldfjka;ldjf sent you a tell [view][spam].  </p><p>It was worrying when they broke through using those foreign characters, but that was quickly put to rest.  Only a couple of times have things gotten through with them testing the waters.  People have sent me random tells saying "hi", and "high", but that's about it.  </p><p>As others have said report it and if it gets progressive to the point it breaks through multiple times /petition it.  When you petition it state what the message said, when they broke through, and the person's name.  </p><p>Plat sellers are pretty freakin sad, but I have to give them credit that they are tenacious little buggers.  Too bad we don't have industrial strength cockroach remover. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Maroger]

<cite>Freliant wrote:</cite><blockquote>Got several blocked messeged on my Sarnak... then I blocked spam tells... got on my 80 Wizzy, and I have gotten a few tells in full text, like the op stated. I went ahead and reported it, so it should be fixed soon enough.</blockquote><p>I hadn't seen any spam tells for months -- then I got these 3 in quick order today. I did do a report on all of them. But it does look like they have broken through.</p><p>And of course it is always Level 1 frogloks on Queens island -- don't understand why they can'st just delete these characters as soon as they spawn on that island with those odd names that you cannot pronounce. </p>

[Savanja]

<cite>Maroger wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Freliant wrote:</cite><blockquote>Got several blocked messeged on my Sarnak... then I blocked spam tells... got on my 80 Wizzy, and I have gotten a few tells in full text, like the op stated. I went ahead and reported it, so it should be fixed soon enough.</blockquote><p>I hadn't seen any spam tells for months -- then I got these 3 in quick order today. I did do a report on all of them. But it does look like they have broken through.</p><p>And of course it is always Level 1 frogloks on Queens island -- don't understand why they can'st just delete these characters as soon as they spawn on that island with those odd names that you cannot pronounce. </p></blockquote>lol.  Really?  They should just auto-delete characters based on suspicion of potential spam?My daughter always uses the random name generator, but she'd never play a froglok so I suppose she's safe from the tyranny....for now.  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Gnobrin]

<p>Do remember, as others have already stated here, if you get such a /tell pertaining to plat spammers, /report them but then even /petition to ensure attention is on that issue.  I personally had a guy send me a couple /tells the other day about his super-cool plat site, but a awift report and petition later, he was gone.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>

[Jehannum]

I don't bother with Petition any more since it doesn't seem to work.  Last time I tried, I got an extra browse window opened up which asked me to log in again, and wouldn't allow me to enter a ticket about a potential bot because it claimed I wasn't logged in.  I much preferred the old in-game ticketing system; the new setup's never worked and as far as I'm concerned, I'm done with trying to use it unless I get such a horrendous issue that my characters are somehow impaired.

[Gladiia]

<cite>Effie wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>This is not the correct avenue to report spam tells.</p><p>In-game you need only to right click the offending tell/spam and select the appropriate menu choice.</p><p>The spam filters are updated very quickly.</p></blockquote>Ah, that is right, my mistake.  See, it's been so long I forgot the right way to let the correct people know <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[SkinnyFats_EQ2]

<p>I get spam that bypasses the filters all the time.</p><p>First there's this particular sound that comes out of the speakers - a sound that always makes me think, "oh no - the servers are coming down.  I wonder what's up?"</p><p>Then a bunch of filter bypassing spam appears on my window.  It always refers to something called Legends of Norrath, which isn't even the game I'm playing, and I have no interest in.</p><p>At least the plat spammers are referring to a game I play, and care about.</p>

[Yarginis]

<cite>Gnobrin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Do remember, as others have already stated here, if you get such a /tell pertaining to plat spammers, /report them but then even /petition to ensure attention is on that issue.  I personally had a guy send me a couple /tells the other day about his super-cool plat site, but a awift report and petition later, he was gone.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p></blockquote><div align="left">You know, I <b>almost</b> pity the plat spammer foolish/unlucky enough to send plat spam to a dev, although I would pay good money to see some of the dev's responses back. I can just imagine something like <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">/ban mingdaplatzspammer "You fool if you want to plat spam, don't me stupid enough to send it to the devs - have fun spamming WoW in the future"</span></div>

[Ama]

<p>I still wish we players could form lynching mobs and if we get a tell from a plat seller we could magically transport to the queen's colony or overlord's outpost.  There we could torture them dropping them from high heights dieing over and over again.  Every time they died they would get a black message accross the screen "YOU ARE A DIRTY PLAT SELLER/FARMER YOU ARE NOT WELCOME".  Then every time they died and tried to speak it would say "the dead cannot send tells, nor can dirty plat farmers." </p><p>Plat farmers should be glad i'm not a CSR person because I would just pick a random server from the wheel o torture and would stay on queen's colony then overlord's outpost.  I get a report about a plat spammer i'll just slap em and kill em.  That or teleport em to the lair of Trakanon to be killed by him over and over again. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Farradin]

Sad part is that these spams all seem to come from the same web site <a href="http://www.gmwo*****.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.gmwo*****.com</a> and they have been doing this over a year.  guess they are millionaires by now.

[Effie]

<cite>Yarginista wrote:</cite><blockquote><div align="left">You know, I <b>almost</b> pity the plat spammer foolish/unlucky enough to send plat spam to a dev, although I would pay good money to see some of the dev's responses back. I can just imagine something like <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">/ban mingdaplatzspammer "You fool if you want to plat spam, don't me stupid enough to send it to the devs - have fun spamming WoW in the future"</span></div></blockquote><p>I'm willing to bet when the devs are actually <i>playing </i>the game on a live server, they are using the same client as the rest of us.</p><p>I'm also pretty sure that there's no actual person manually sending out the spam tells. They most likely have a macro that polls current online players and sneds an automated /tell to anyone that comes up on a /who query.</p>

[Powers]

<cite>Savanja wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>My daughter always uses the random name generator, but she'd never play a froglok so I suppose she's safe from the tyranny....for now.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>The spammers don't even use the name generator; their names appear to be a random sequence of characters and are usually completely unpronounceable.Powers  &8^]

[Kwibble]

<cite>Gnobrin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Do remember, as others have already stated here, if you get such a /tell pertaining to plat spammers, /report them but then even /petition to ensure attention is on that issue.  I personally had a guy send me a couple /tells the other day about his super-cool plat site, but a awift report and petition later, he was gone.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p></blockquote><p>Gnobrin,</p><p>    Can we get a clarification here?  I thought there was a post awhile back following the successful implementation of the spam filter, that the devs said that /report and /petition were no longer the preferred means of reporting the spam, and were just creating additional work to sift through.  I thought the left-click name/Report Spam was automated and served the purpose of the /report and /petition.  Is this not correct?  </p><p>                         Kwibble</p>

[bleap]

What bothers me most is that the spammers continue to send them even though they have to know that SOE uses a filter...Which tells me there are still a ton of people buying plat from these yahoos...SOE still has done nothing to stop the cheaters...Prevent plat buying would remove most of the plat sellers...there is no money to be made if no one is buying...they will move on

[Gladiia]

<cite>bleap wrote:</cite><blockquote>What bothers me most is that the spammers continue to send them even though they have to know that SOE uses a filter...Which tells me there are still a ton of people buying plat from these yahoos...SOE still has done nothing to stop the cheaters...Prevent plat buying would remove most of the plat sellers...there is no money to be made if no one is buying...they will move on</blockquote>O, make no mistake, there are plenty of people out there that want these tells.