GS message in POL, what gives?

[Apelila]

So, I come back from getting food and go to log in to this:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y163/xzelldx/WTF-1.jpg

I thought only people on your Flist could send you messages? Neither of My other accounts have this spam, but needless to say I'm kind of concerned. Blocked out website and that # because i'm paranoid.

Edit: GM said to STF report it, since they cannot handle anything that happens when your not logged into FFXI.

[Deadmeat]

Got this too. Deleted it right away and sent in a GM call.

[Pikarya]

/anon your chars in-game, set your online friends status to invisible (offline) and set your POL list status to inactive/invisible. Then they won't be able to search for you in POL and message you.

[Mizango]

/anon your chars in-game, set your online friends status to invisible (offline) and set your POL list status to inactive/invisible. Then they won't be able to search for you in POL and message you.

LOL Goddamn, a self contained POL bunker? Howard Hughes tried that, really didn't work out to well for him.

I didn't get one thankfully.

[Destinye]

lol, $46.99?

I can get a small sushi plate for that at Fusion Sushi.

[Thistle]

You should grammar check their message and send it back to them. "1 Million Gil only need $46.99"? My gil needs nothing and likes it! "All kinds of Power leveling packages"? If you're going to use capitalization that way, 'leveling' should start with upper case as well. "Thanks for your reading"? My reading, give it back! ; ;

Do it, they'll thank you! And who doesn't want to get in good with GSers, right~?

[Avarice]

$46.99 per Million is just a retarded price.

[Force-Attuned Krogoth]

I got this too, but the odd thing was it got sent to a completely inactive handle. I mean, it hasn't been used in four years and I had to look to figure out where that "To:" line came from. I'd be interested to find out how they managed such a thing.

[Azalee]

A couple people in my linkshell have received it, and I told them that it was sent out to all people that have purchased gil in the past. =P

[Mizango]

$46.99 per Million is just a retarded price.

Yet thousands of retarded people spend RL money on this retarded bullshit. It is fucking mind boggling.

[amaron]

$46.99? Wow.

A couple years ago 1m gil was under $10.

Looks like S-E is finally doing it's job and really cracking down.

[Mizango]

$46.99? Wow.

A couple years ago 1m gil was under $10.

Looks like S-E is finally doing it's job and really cracking down.

Remember the Christmas blow out sale of 2005? Oh God the lulz. There was a guy on Pandy (Hi2u Cloudlyon) that purchased the entire HQ adaman cursed set for his 23whm/5Blm. Much to chagrin after displaying it in Bazaar for a week or so, he realized that Whm couldn't wear it and did not have the gil to repost the said items back on the AH, to which he decided to simply shout sell it in Jeuno (Back when Jeuno was the ONLY place to go) for NQ prices to cut his losses.

But yes, gil seller bannings seem to be pushing the price up if nothing else. Not sure how much of a deterrent that is though tbh.

[Dimmauk]

So, I come back from getting food and go to log in to this:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y163/xzelldx/WTF-1.jpg

I thought only people on your Flist could send you messages? Neither of My other accounts have this spam, but needless to say I'm kind of concerned. Blocked out website and that # because i'm paranoid.

Edit: GM said to STF report it, since they cannot handle anything that happens when your not logged into FFXI.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/...cf2f9f607f.jpg

[Saithorx]

a friend of mine received that message too. I think the person messaging hims name was Charnum or Charanum.

[amaron]

But yes, gil seller bannings seem to be pushing the price up if nothing else. Not sure how much of a deterrent that is though tbh.

Well, for the kids siphoning mommy and daddy's credit card, the price never did matter I'm sure.

But it is moving in the right direction, up.

[OctavoGilgamesh]

/anon your chars in-game, set your online friends status to invisible (offline) and set your POL list status to inactive/invisible. Then they won't be able to search for you in POL and message you.

Nothing worse than putting someone on your flist only to have them invisible all the time.

Other games have had this for ages, I'm suprised to first see this in ffxi now. Not validating it, but w/e.

[DAKPluto]

Anyone who has played WoW is very familiar with these.


And there is ways to send messages within playonline without having the person on your friendlist.

[Shalafi]

You have a POL email address, someone finally got smart and added the domain to their spam bot.

[6souls]

those get sent out about once a month. i'm up to 5 e-mail hosts on POL block list.

[aurik]

Gil has been floating around the 50/m mark since late 2006. It dropped to ~30/m for a while with all the compromised accounts being sacked, but it looks like SE got a handle on that.