A few questions about influence selling/getting hacked.
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Posted on: 2010-04-03 09:10 in Player Questions
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Soupnazi wonders: Yesterday, I got an email advertising an influence selling site, and it brought a few questions to mind: 1) What is NCSoft's position on influence selling? Do they hate it, tolerate it, etc etc? |
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| 2) Do the influence sellers get their influence by hacking accounts? 'Cause this is a problem in WoW and I'm wondering if it is here too. |
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| 3) Other than having a secure password, are there any other ways to help prevent getting hacked? |
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Thanks!
You can actually identify an inf farmer in-game pretty easily. Their name will be some combination of gibberish letters ("Gkhygenion" is a random example) with a random costume. They'll probably be a Fire/Kin Controller, or a Fire/Fire Blaster is another combination I've seen. They also tend to travel in packs.
A question I have to ask: would there be any purpose in reporting these people? Technically you have no way of knowing that they're doing anything wrong, but they're pretty obviously working for inf selling companies.
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I've often seen them just standing there in Atlas where you get dumped out right after character creation. I don't know how much reporting does. I certainly reported every single one that sent me emails over the last couple of years, but I have no idea how effective it was. I love that you can just turn off email now (I've never seen anyone even use it except for a few SGs that have a reason).
Dec out.
Actually, there IS some account hacking in this game. The devs have made some pretty serious posts about not handing out your passwords or clicking links to possible phishing sites.
The hackers USUALLY send you an out-of-game e-mail and try to get you to click a link and provide your plaync account info. They do this not to get your stuff, but to get access to another account to gold farm with and sell through without having to pay 15 bucks.
If you ever get a suspicious e-mail (bad grammar, anything asking you to verify your account, etc), send that e-mail to customer service so they can investigate. True, these people are probably in China and so we can't do much, but it still gives the team an idea of the severity of the problem.
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Yes, definitely report. The first time I reported a group of very obvious infl sellers, I got a thank you e-mail. The e-mail also told me to report anymore that I come across. How did I know these people were RMTers?|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
You can actually identify an inf farmer in-game pretty easily. Their name will be some combination of gibberish letters ("Gkhygenion" is a random example) with a random costume. They'll probably be a Fire/Kin Controller, or a Fire/Fire Blaster is another combination I've seen. They also tend to travel in packs.
A question I have to ask: would there be any purpose in reporting these people? Technically you have no way of knowing that they're doing anything wrong, but they're pretty obviously working for inf selling companies. |
1. An 8 man team of fire/kins and all of them had gibberish for names, hanging around one of the portals inside portal corp
2. All of them had only one or two badges, and one was the top influence earning badge.
3. They would not respond to tells or local chat.
All of that combined SCREAMS RMT providers/sellers. I report groups like that every time I see em.
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If you just don't want to deal with their spammy in-game e-mails, you can set your e-mail options to "friends & supergroup only" in your options menu. You can also set it to not receive any e-mail at all.... personally, I find that a bit too limiting.
If you want to participate in aggressive pest control, you can use the "spam" button in the e-mails. When used enough, the account that the e-mail came from will be banned/deleted. Just be careful not to use the spam button on legit e-mails from friends! 
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Then I'll report every one I see. Thanks for the confirmation.
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Originally Posted by StarKitten
Yes, definitely report. The first time I reported a group of very obvious infl sellers, I got a thank you e-mail. The e-mail also told me to report anymore that I come across. How did I know these people were RMTers?
1. An 8 man team of fire/kins and all of them had gibberish for names, hanging around one of the portals inside portal corp 2. All of them had only one or two badges, and one was the top influence earning badge. 3. They would not respond to tells or local chat. All of that combined SCREAMS RMT providers/sellers. I report groups like that every time I see em. |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Ahh but with I17 it will have a use since you can attach salvage/Recipes/Enhancements/insps/inf to send to an alt.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
I've often seen them just standing there in Atlas where you get dumped out right after character creation. I don't know how much reporting does. I certainly reported every single one that sent me emails over the last couple of years, but I have no idea how effective it was. I love that you can just turn off email now (I've never seen anyone even use it except for a few SGs that have a reason).
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I reported some - group of four gibberish names fire/kin controllers who were on for a ridiculously long amount of time each day. |
Originally Posted by DarkGob
A question I have to ask: would there be any purpose in reporting these people? Technically you have no way of knowing that they're doing anything wrong, but they're pretty obviously working for inf selling companies.
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Yes got the standard email. No they didn't get banned; they were on every day for the next week or so.
Then I got a RMT email which I deleted as spam (IE auto reports). That got them banned.
I'd still report, but I question whether anything is done until they start sending out RMT emails.
*shrug*
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They're very much against it - I'd advise you to totally avoid anything related to it, and if you get any in-game e-mail advertising it, mark it as spam straight away.
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Originally Posted by Soupnazi
What is NCSoft's position on influence selling? Do they hate it, tolerate it, etc etc?
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Really? I had not heard that! Definite thanks for the info! |
Desi_Nova shows they knew that: Ahh but with I17 it will have a use since you can attach salvage/Recipes/Enhancements/insps/inf to send to an alt. |
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Yesterday, I got an email advertising an influence selling site, and it brought a few questions to mind:
1) What is NCSoft's position on influence selling? Do they hate it, tolerate it, etc etc?
2) Do the influence sellers get their influence by hacking accounts? 'Cause this is a problem in WoW and I'm wondering if it is here too.
3) Other than having a secure password, are there any other ways to help prevent getting hacked?