Alec_Fortescue Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Did anyone experience this on their servers? On ToFN I am getting 2-3 mails per day per character. :[ Anything been done to solve it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theeko Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Good and bad, healthy game = more spammers / farmers and bad as in annoying to hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PavSalco Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) Mails are the least annoying. I'm glad that they stopped sending whispers and I barely see them on the general chat. Squelching works well. Edited July 30, 2015 by PavSalco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSCARAYone Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I haven't seen any, even in fleet gen chat, in a few days on the harbinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khryn Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I've seen 1 or 2 Spammers in General Chat and got an email once a day. Certainly nothing I'd take to the forums with pitchforks and torches for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSeventhJedi Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I haven't been getting them that often. Occasionally, sure, but not even daily, and certainly not per toon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unchosen Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 It's such a very minor annoyance. Just report and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TikkyLightmaker Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 On Begeren Colony, i've been getting much more spam mails in the past... month, about. Used to never get some. Even came across one of the spammers in the Sith starter world, right at the 1st mailbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOHboy Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Did anyone experience this on their servers? On ToFN I am getting 2-3 mails per day per character. :[ Anything been done to solve it? its an arms race. they put in squelch and mute in chat so they resorted to sending out an easily deleted mail. report the mail and the account will eventually get banned. they try to track the funds and mail and find the source accounts and get those. they nerfed the chests to remove that resource for bots, so farmers will have to find a different way of getting credits. it will never be free as long as the game is alive and there is demand. if people didn't buy them, they wouldn't have anyone to sell and there wouldn't be a market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legolose Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) Mails are the least annoying. I'm glad that they stopped sending whispers and I barely see them on the general chat. Squelching works well.I still get those too, not as bad but just yesterday got 3 whispers from 3 different spammers ignored & reported all of them, but I still get a hell of a lot of mail from them daily ,, Now its starting to be problem, I'm getting about 3 per character daily ,,, please for the love of god fix this... Edited July 30, 2015 by Legolose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiamaraSimi Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 It's such a very minor annoyance. Just report and move on. Sadly when you have 20 characters all getting them you run into the dreaded "you have too many tickets open and cant open any more" stupidity when reporting them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frybert Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 report the mail and the account will eventually get banned. Sadly when you have 20 characters all getting them you run into the dreaded "you have too many tickets open and cant open any more" stupidity when reporting them Yeah, the one and only problem I have with mail spam as opposed to chat spam is that if I report it, it costs me a ticket slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOHboy Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Yeah, the one and only problem I have with mail spam as opposed to chat spam is that if I report it, it costs me a ticket slot. Sadly when you have 20 characters all getting them you run into the dreaded "you have too many tickets open and cant open any more" stupidity when reporting them i wouldn't necessarily report on every char i get a mail from, they don't need 20 copies from the same person (reports are per account, not per char), unless the accounts sending the mail are different. once per account should be sufficient if the spammer is not unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobs_YourUncle Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Actually for my characters, mail spam has been limited to maybe one every few days recently. I have no clue why, it got really bad not too long ago. I just figured they did something to block them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 i wouldn't necessarily report on every char i get a mail from, they don't need 20 copies from the same person (reports are per account, not per char), unless the accounts sending the mail are different. once per account should be sufficient if the spammer is not unique. /Agree. I don't report mail spam anymore.. I just delete it and move on .... saving my ticket space for other reports or actions. What I have noticed, playing GTN alts on three different servers, is that they appear to have someone who simply records characters that log in and add them to a weekly spam list. These alts never leave their stronghold.... so someone is camping the strongholds and recording character names into a spam list. Each week, they pop me a spam message and I delete it. Recently... I noticed that after not including a credit in the spam for some time now, they are now doing that again. I gather it's so they can see if the character continues to exist (since if I don't take the credit or delete the email with the credit attached... it would return to them after a period of time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infidelious Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 99% of my credit seller spam is for the same site so these days I'm happy just to get spam from another site for change. My spam mails don't seem to be as frequent as some of you, I get about 1 every 2 days per character. With 17 characters it does all add up to a lot of mails though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetFish Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I haven't had any mail spam on any of my 22 characters in at least a week. I see one chat spammer only every few days. I usually play 2-3 hours per day so I'm on a lot but even the mail spam wouldn't care cuz that can arrive and sit there for days but I still rarely see it now. They have done a phenomenal job virtually eliminating spam. Kudos. As for why a few people seem to get more... No idea. Maybe your names are easy to spell or common. Who knows. The bottom line is that they've really kicked rump taking care of these losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec_Fortescue Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 As for why a few people seem to get more... No idea. Maybe your names are easy to spell or common. Who knows. The bottom line is that they've really kicked rump taking care of these losers. Pretty sure it's "who". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veronyka Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Did anyone experience this on their servers? On ToFN I am getting 2-3 mails per day per character. :[ Anything been done to solve it? Yeah. I too am on ToFN and pretty much getting at least one mail on each char every day. It is annoying, especially on my banking alt as I get excited thinking it's a gtn sale when I see the mail icon. However, the credit spammers only target healthy games so it is also a good sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talosred Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I mainly get a spam mail the day, but don't hang out in fleets a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchsts Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 on the bastion its slowly getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callaron Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Did anyone experience this on their servers? On ToFN I am getting 2-3 mails per day per character. :[ Anything been done to solve it? Not two or three per character, but at least one on each character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidicous Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 The thing for BW/EA with mail spam is at least they can make some decent cash off this kinda spammer. How you ask? Gotta be a subscriber to send mail. So keep email spamming me there Wang, Chang, and Weelildong. You are helping keep the game alive with the constant banning, resubbing new account cycle. And kudos to BW/EA for finding a way to monetize yourselves from gold spammers. If the spammers kick it up a few notches we can get loads more new content and xpacs for virtually no cost but a few email deletions a day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfburger Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 /Agree. I don't report mail spam anymore.. I just delete it and move on .... saving my ticket space for other reports or actions. What I have noticed, playing GTN alts on three different servers, is that they appear to have someone who simply records characters that log in and add them to a weekly spam list. These alts never leave their stronghold.... so someone is camping the strongholds and recording character names into a spam list. Each week, they pop me a spam message and I delete it. Recently... I noticed that after not including a credit in the spam for some time now, they are now doing that again. I gather it's so they can see if the character continues to exist (since if I don't take the credit or delete the email with the credit attached... it would return to them after a period of time). I was just thinking my credit spammers don't love me anymore. I never get the free credit anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianDmitruk Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Yeah, the one and only problem I have with mail spam as opposed to chat spam is that if I report it, it costs me a ticket slot. Yes, when I saw that people were running into the limit of allowable tickets by reporting spammers, I immediately checked my open tickets. I saw a veritable army of spammers whom I had reported, some from months ago. The tickets had never been closed. I will no longer report spam until Bioware clears the backlog of unopened tickets. If Bioware expects us to report spammers, then they have a responsibility to actually act upon the reports. Now the only thing I will do is just click on the mail so it shows as read. Ignoring spammers will sadly fill my ignore list to the point I can't ignore actual loot ninjas, trolls, terribads in GF queue who do less DPS/healing/aggro than a level 10 companion, etc. If Bioware won't police their own game then they should just give us the ability to set our own mail and chat filters, so we can deal with the spam ourselves without clogging up ignore/open ticket lists. Edited July 31, 2015 by AdrianDmitruk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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