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Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the long-time-coming dept.

DaphneDiane writes "Blizzard announced that they are suing one of the heavily spamming gold sellers, Peons4hire. Peons4hire had recently been spamming players in World of Warcraft with multi-line messages advertising their power leveling and gold selling business. With the advent of the recently released 2.1.0 patch Blizzard made it easier to report and block these spammers. I've noticed a large decrease in spam while playing since the patch. It used to be that I would get nearly a dozen spams a night but I barely have seen any since."

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  1. Anti-spam by nekozid · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who don't know what measures they took, there is now a report spam button and the servers filter out most of the messages.

    1. Re:Anti-spam by Broken+Bottle · · Score: 5, Informative

      they also blocked trial accounts from being able to send whispers to people who haven't sent them a whisper first or have the trail account name on their friends list. Also, they throttled the rate at which people can send whispers and te amount of text that can be sent per whisper.

      A lot of stuff that will make a spammer's life more difficult.

  2. Re:Interesting. by Mr+EdgEy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not 'a player'. Peons4hire and similar businesses have many players working to farm up and advertise the gold, if you've ever played WoW you'd know it's not just one account :p