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Hey guys, I was leveling botanist last night in the new gridania area collecting elm logs to store in my retainer for when I level up crafts, nothing out of the ordinary there..

But this is what is weird.. I had a guy with a name like "hdfga sfafa" (some kind of spam name) following me constantly, like literally with the /follow command, he would try and trade me every so often.. This went on until I had about 500 elm logs (so a few hours or so), it was really starting to annoy me, so before I left to go town to store my logs, I accepted the trade for the sake of it and whoever it was put 750k into the trade box and clicked accept.. Now at this point I thought it was one of my friends playing around with me.. So I clicked accept... Just because I thought they were gonna decline but.. I now have +750k I didn't have before .. After trying to get my friends to admit to me that it was them, they were like "honestly it wasn't us, we don't even have 750k ourselves lol".

This has got me worried, I tried calling for a GM on the matter but one didnt come, I now don't know what to do.. I don't want to get banned, I'm worried :/

What do you guys think happened??

This is a very strange occurrence to me, nothing has ever happened like this in a mmorpg before!

Help!


P.s.. I would like to add that immediately after the trade the random character disappeared, not sure if it logged or teleport I was too busy talking to my friends to notice.. (Was totally in shock)

Edited, Oct 16th 2013 2:38am by Omniworm

You probably have a similar sounding name of one of their gil runners/banks.

But yeah, long story short, if you thought ZAM was a hard place to try and convince people you really didnt do anything wrong or didnt actually purchase that gil, try dealing with Square Enix...

Not saying that what happened isnt the truth or anything. None of us were there, and probably no one knows you personally, so we have no way to confirm or deny it, but it is suspicious. And Square Enix bans people that are even slightly suspicious.

SE operates on a strict guilty until proven guilty because you're clearly guilty policy. Just like SE doesn't have a downvote button on their forums I don't think their customer service dep't has any other button on their screen but 'ban account', so the end result no matter what the inquiry is an account ban.


Edited, Oct 16th 2013 7:32am by Furiousnixon

just laundry the money, give it to someone to hold onto for a fee days, then take it back >.>

I had something like that happen in EQ 2. Someone walked up to me and handed me over 10,000 plat and disappeared. I accepted and was blown away. Never got banned or anything. Different game but same scenario.

Chances are you will be flagged for RMT long before they see anything that you post. But, yeah, I would say just get ready to expect the suspension, hold off on any large purchases/sales, and make sure you don't move gil off of your character.

If you do get contacted, or suspended, use the posts/messages that you submitted as your evidence that you are an unwitting party. Hopefully nothing comes from it and you have 75k. But if something does, just remember to CYA, and understand that from their point of view, they are just following the money, and have no intention of banning honest players, but also don't have time to dig deeper than necessary.

They deal with thousands of hacks, cheats, bots, and such a day. It is a full time job for a lot of people, and as a result, they tend to be short and suspicious. But, USUALLY, they are reasonable. Not always (and we always hear about the times that they are not, or the occasional people who try to make it seem like they are not).

Good luck!

Or even worse, they could spam you with tells about their site, and how it's 100% handwork guaranteed!!