Gold Sellers PM'ing on Forums now

Auldjohn · May 2014

@ZOS_TristanK‌
profile/4845771/huagehehe

This Gold Spammer sent an ESO Forum PM AND a duplicate to my personal e-mail address!

How do I block this or other Gold Spammers from sending me PMs here in the Forums?

Could ZOS please add a Report Player function to the ESO Forums like the F1 in-game feature.

Gold Spammer account names seem to follow the same random pattern as the names of the increasing number of bot encountered in-game. Blocking a message from one Gold Spammer is like trying to personally kill or block a bot in-game. More effective would be summoning GM in-game for bots or ZOS wielding the ban hammer in-Forum for the source of these Gold Spammer accounts.

I am happy to report Spammers and Bots, but need worthy tools to do so. TIA

starkerealm · May 2014

kewl wrote: »

What is, "100% Handwork Guaranteed!" Is that like a happy ending with every purchase?

Well, there's a mental image that's never coming out. Thanks.

hubmarcb16_ESO · May 2014

I got 2 of them via email:

aizong sent you a message

*** is the most secure place to buy Elder Scrolls Gold.

Very low price

Instant Delivery.

This company has very good reputation, selling in-game currencies since 2005.

100% Handwork Guaranteed!

7/24 Customer Service!

***

djekewjrkew sent you a message

*** is the most secure place to buy Elder Scrolls Gold.

Very low price

Instant Delivery.

This company has very good reputation, selling in-game currencies since 2005.

100% Handwork Guaranteed!

7/24 Customer Service!

***

Warm Regards, the ***

And one in my profile inbox from "aizong", belonging to the same outfit.

Ciedoc · May 2014

Add me to the list, was sent to me and 49 others:

laozhang 12:47AM

********* is the most secure place to buy Elder Scrolls Gold.
Very low price
Instant Delivery.
This company has very good reputation, selling in-game currencies since 2005.
100% Handwork Guaranteed!
7/24 Customer Service!
**********

Warm Regards, the ***** Team

Ign0rance · May 2014

Just got a message "knightangle sent you a message" to my email inbox. Really need to turn off the pm email by defaut or delete my forum account. Reddit seems like a better forum anyway.

ZOS_TristanK · May 2014

Thank you for your continued reports, folks. We'd like to assure you that your email addresses are not visible on the forums. If you see an email from community@elderscrollsonline.com that contains a gold selling message, it is an automated forum notification. These notifications contain the message that you received on the forums, which is why the email itself can look like spam. If you see an email from an email address other than community@elderscrollsonline.com, please contact our Support Team.

You can head to your forum profile settings to turn the email notifications off so that you don't receive them in the future if you'd like to. We will continue to develop ways to combat these spammers, and appreciate your patience.

EQBallzz · May 2014

I know that is supposed to be reassuring but the fact that you can't keep people from doing mass spam PMs on your forums isn't instilling a lot of confidence that you are safeguarding private information.

I realize that most of the time people probably are just getting forum notifications about a PM but they obviously already have a list of all forum names to mass email in alphabetical order which is essentially the first half of an email. Not much social engineering/scripting is required to add @gmail or @yahoo to those and get a valid email to start spamming away.