A solution is already in the works. Patience.
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Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
...The question is then, why do temp accounts have email privileges? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you take away those privileges and ban anyone who is caught spamming with their main account then you solve the problem. Why hasn't this been enacted? It doesn't make any sense to allow these people to go on harassing paying customers. Please take away email from temp accounts.
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http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Trial_Account
* Trial Accounts cannot email other players
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They don't. The spam is likely coming from the accounts of people who paid to get their characters PLed, and then subsequently had their full accounts stolen. Or, the RMTers are making enough money that buying full accounts to send spam emails isn't a net loss. Or a combination of both.
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Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
The question is then, why do temp accounts have email privileges?
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This is good to know but it's still frustrating having to click that stupid spam button for every single message in my email.
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
They don't. The spam is likely coming from the accounts of people who paid to get their characters PLed, and then subsequently had their full accounts stolen. Or, the RMTers are making enough money that buying full accounts to send spam emails isn't a net loss. Or a combination of both.
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As of Issue 16, you can choose to only accept mail from people in your SuperGroup and/or your friends list or can disable in game entirely. Utilizing any of these three options should take care of the RMT spammers.|
Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
Who isn't fed up with the spam that overflows our in-boxes? Everytime I log in there are several emails (sometimes hundreds) from websites asking me to buy infamy/influence or powerleveling, etc. with real world cash. The in-game email has become completely useless. Who wants to wade through pages of spam to get to the one email that you might have from a friend. I don't think anyone uses it anymore because of this. In-game email was once a fun way to contact your friends and packmates. Now it's just another annoying way for abusers to aggravate players. The devs should know by now that these people are using temp accounts. One gets blocked by the player or deleted by the devs and they just make another account. The question is then, why do temp accounts have email privileges? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you take away those privileges and ban anyone who is caught spamming with their main account then you solve the problem. Why hasn't this been enacted? It doesn't make any sense to allow these people to go on harassing paying customers. Please take away email from temp accounts.
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One more reason I am anxiously awaiting the release of Issue 16 to the live servers.
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I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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They aren't using trial accounts.|
Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
Who isn't fed up with the spam that overflows our in-boxes? Everytime I log in there are several emails (sometimes hundreds) from websites asking me to buy infamy/influence or powerleveling, etc. with real world cash. The in-game email has become completely useless. Who wants to wade through pages of spam to get to the one email that you might have from a friend. I don't think anyone uses it anymore because of this. In-game email was once a fun way to contact your friends and packmates. Now it's just another annoying way for abusers to aggravate players. The devs should know by now that these people are using temp accounts. One gets blocked by the player or deleted by the devs and they just make another account. The question is then, why do temp accounts have email privileges? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you take away those privileges and ban anyone who is caught spamming with their main account then you solve the problem. Why hasn't this been enacted? It doesn't make any sense to allow these people to go on harassing paying customers. Please take away email from temp accounts.
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Trial accounts have significant restrictions, among them that trial accounts cannot send tells, cannot send e-mails, and cannot speak in broadcast. Almost every single restriction on a trial account is there to fight RMT spammers, including the fact that they cannot form teams, join or form supergroups and cannot hold more than 50,000 influence. The only restriction Trial accounts have that I can't see being at all related to the RMT trade is that they can't level past 14.
RMT spammers are using real accounts, either their own, or the accounts of idiots who buy powerleveling services from them. They will continue to do so as long as enough idiots use their services for them to turn even a miniscule profit. Granted, most of the credit card numbers used to open the accounts are either fraudulent, or belong to the idiots who buy their wares.
Issue 16 will give us another weapon to use against them. Issue 16 will introduce an e-mail filter so that we can choose to receive e-mail from only our friends, our supergroup, or both. We will even be able to simply turn it off and not receive e-mail from anyone.
The spammers will try to find another way, we just have to wait and see what they try next.
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A filter is being introduced in I 16 (?) that will let you shut off e-mail from anyone other than your friends list. That should all but kill the problem.
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1) Trials can't send emails.
2) Spammers are deleted as reported and verified.
3) As noted, I16 adds the long-desired filters to email to limit incoming to friends lists and supergroup mates 9or turn it off entirely).
Ta-daa.
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Originally Posted by Garielle
As of Issue 16, you can choose to only accept mail from people in your SuperGroup and/or your friends list or can disable in game entirely. Utilizing any of these three options should take care of the RMT spammers.
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I just hope that filter is defaulted to ON!
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Originally Posted by BBhumeBB
1) Trials can't send emails.
2) Spammers are deleted as reported and verified. 3) As noted, I16 adds the long-desired filters to email to limit incoming to friends lists and supergroup mates 9or turn it off entirely). Ta-daa. |
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Doesn't matter, the spammers have already started spamming in Local.
I don't understand why they allow spammers to create new accounts. Seems like if you ban someone's account you don't let them create a new one.
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Do you honestly think they're creating new accounts under the same master account and with the same email/contact information/etc?|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Doesn't matter, the spammers have already started spamming in Local.
I don't understand why they allow spammers to create new accounts. Seems like if you ban someone's account you don't let them create a new one. |
They are creating new accounts with new "identities" (which are most likely fake) each time. New fake email address, new fake contact information, and likely new (most likely stolen!) credit card info.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Or easy to obtain VISA gift cards.. which are anonymous.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Do you honestly think they're creating new accounts under the same master account and with the same email/contact information/etc?
They are creating new accounts with new "identities" (which are most likely fake) each time. New fake email address, new fake contact information, and likely new (most likely stolen!) credit card info. |
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This is great news! I wish that I had looked into i16 more. I was kind of disappointed when I thought it was just the custom colors thing. The more I find out about it the more I like what is coming down the pike.
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Originally Posted by jwbullfrog
A filter is being introduced in I 16 (?) that will let you shut off e-mail from anyone other than your friends list. That should all but kill the problem.
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I thought the trial accounts could still send mail via command line; glad that fixed that hole.
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Trial accounts can send mail through the mail interface. They were never restricted. It was mistakenly believed by the playerbase (including Paragon Wiki) that they were. They weren't, and aren't.
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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Ah, now that you mention it, I do recall a thread about that.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Trial accounts can send mail through the mail interface. They were never restricted. It was mistakenly believed by the playerbase (including Paragon Wiki) that they were. They weren't, and aren't.
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So, I was right then. After a whole page of being ridiculed and scorned. Finally some vindication. Ok, now I know I'm opening myself up for the real lashing. :P
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Trial accounts can send mail through the mail interface. They were never restricted. It was mistakenly believed by the playerbase (including Paragon Wiki) that they were. They weren't, and aren't.
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The ones who should be scorned are the NCsoft employees who lied to us and the ParagonWiki editors who entered information without verifying it.
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Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
So, I was right then. After a whole page of being ridiculed and scorned. Finally some vindication. Ok, now I know I'm opening myself up for the real lashing. :P
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Originally Posted by Corebreach
The ones who should be scorned are the NCsoft employees who lied to us and the ParagonWiki editors who entered information without verifying it.
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/em wagging finger
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Powers customization is great and all, but honestly the QoL improvements Issue 16 is bringing deserve almost as much fanfare as PC in my opinion. |
Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
This is great news! I wish that I had looked into i16 more. I was kind of disappointed when I thought it was just the custom colors thing. The more I find out about it the more I like what is coming down the pike.
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Well we are still getting the option to turn email off.. so trial or not.. you're still free.
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Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
So, I was right then. After a whole page of being ridiculed and scorned. Finally some vindication. Ok, now I know I'm opening myself up for the real lashing. :P
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*shrug* just because you were right about one thing, doesn't mean you were right about the other stuff. The entire thread would have been better served if you'd either done a bit of looking before posting, or used this section of the forum as intended and come here asking if any changes were coming instead of trying to whip up support for your crusade.|
Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer
So, I was right then. After a whole page of being ridiculed and scorned. Finally some vindication. Ok, now I know I'm opening myself up for the real lashing. :P
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"Is anything going to be done about spam emails?"
"Yes. Issue 16 has some cool filter options and it's due on Live in the near future"
Much less drama, see?
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Who isn't fed up with the spam that overflows our in-boxes? Everytime I log in there are several emails (sometimes hundreds) from websites asking me to buy infamy/influence or powerleveling, etc. with real world cash. The in-game email has become completely useless. Who wants to wade through pages of spam to get to the one email that you might have from a friend. I don't think anyone uses it anymore because of this. In-game email was once a fun way to contact your friends and packmates. Now it's just another annoying way for abusers to aggravate players. The devs should know by now that these people are using temp accounts. One gets blocked by the player or deleted by the devs and they just make another account. The question is then, why do temp accounts have email privileges? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you take away those privileges and ban anyone who is caught spamming with their main account then you solve the problem. Why hasn't this been enacted? It doesn't make any sense to allow these people to go on harassing paying customers. Please take away email from temp accounts.