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The last days I have been flooded with "friend requests" that come immediately before a whisper for some website or another trading in ec's, keys, ships etc, as soon as the whisper is made the bots then immediately cancel the friend request. In the middle of battle this is extremely annoying to say the least....dear devs....please is there any way you can stop the "bot friending machine" from rolling on as it seems the bots are using the "friending" to get around not being able to send whispers....I click and report and ignore but it is really starting to become a giant pain in the preverbial...

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  • starke1701starke1701 Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    Especially since the request comes up over the interface in combat.
  • littlesarbonnlittlesarbonn Member Posts: 486 Arc User
    Yeah, I've been complaining about this for the last couple of weeks, and basically it's gone ignored.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    just close the friend request window without accepting or rejecting it.
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  • starke1701starke1701 Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    Then you'll just get another from them five minutes later, with a duplicate spam message.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Nope. If you don't accept or reject a friend request, it sticks in limbo and they can't send another.
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  • starke1701starke1701 Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    Actually, they can. They'll withdraw the request and send another. I've seen it happen several times already.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    You guys remember the short era when saying "Gold" in game got you banned automatically? :D
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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    Try setting your privacy so you're only visible to friends. Was getting a lot of those one night and as soon as I did that I stopped getting them. Might have been a coincidence though but I haven't had one since then.
  • starke1701starke1701 Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    tempus64 wrote: »
    Try setting your privacy so you're only visible to friends. Was getting a lot of those one night and as soon as I did that I stopped getting them. Might have been a coincidence though but I haven't had one since then.

    It's not a coincidence. They're querying a list of players... somewhere. Might be a private channel we're in, like TTS or DOFFJOBS, and then everyone that's online gets a message. I've had it happen in instances as well, so it can't just be they're checking zone.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    On one hand, it's a good sign that the game is attractive for the "gold sellers". On the other hand, it's annoying like s**t...
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    The last time this sort of thing happened was from a troll trying to ruin the winter event. for that one it was anyone who said anything in zone chat. this one? might be using the DPS chart. not sure.
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    whatever it is we need more player privacy options to counter it.

    I want to be invisible to non friends but have people STILL be able to team invite me if they KNOW I exist.

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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    Wow...must be lucky I guess because I've never had this happen...I get the occasional spam in my mail but never been spammed in tells or friend requests.
  • irm1963irm1963 Member Posts: 682 Arc User
    The last time this sort of thing happened was from a troll trying to ruin the winter event. for that one it was anyone who said anything in zone chat. this one? might be using the DPS chart. not sure.

    Doubt that since my L15 Romulan got hit with a load of them near New Romulus :)
  • annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,745 Arc User
    It would be easy to fix. Put a 20 minute gate on whispers to people not on each other's list. In addition whisper functions should be limited below level 30
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  • djxprimedjxprime Member Posts: 522 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    The last time this sort of thing happened was from a troll trying to ruin the winter event. for that one it was anyone who said anything in zone chat. this one? might be using the DPS chart. not sure.

    I wouldn't think it would have anything to do with DPS. Like I was saying in an earlier thread about this, I was getting these PMs, but it was while I was in the Foundry editor. I would be working in the editor when I heard the chirp that tells me a PM was sent to me and when I went to preview a map, there was a friend request waiting for me along with a PM message advertising their "service." I eventually had to give up and change my privacy settings to block PMs.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    djxprime wrote: »
    The last time this sort of thing happened was from a troll trying to ruin the winter event. for that one it was anyone who said anything in zone chat. this one? might be using the DPS chart. not sure.
    I wouldn't think I would have anything to do with DPS. Like I was saying in an earlier thread about this, I was getting these PMs, but it was while I was in the Foundry editor. I would be working in the editor when I heard the chirp that tells me a PM was sent to me and when I went to preview a map, there was a friend request waiting for me along with a PM message advertising their "service." I eventually had to give up and change my privacy settings to block PMs.
    They don't need to send the PM to your character, just your account. /tell @djxprime, hi! Works fine.
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  • djxprimedjxprime Member Posts: 522 Arc User
    That's just it. It only happened while I was on my Foundry alt. I haven't gotten them while logged on my main alt or any of the other alts I play in game. Just the one made for the Foundry.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Might be a coincidence. I don't think the bots go for everyone all the time.
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  • comrademococomrademoco Member Posts: 1,694 Bug Hunter
    edited October 2015
    If you don't mind not being able to accept pms or friend request from friends, you can turn does off in the privacy settings tab.

    You'll only get tells and friend request from fleet or people you already have on your friends list.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,174 Community Moderator
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Wow...must be lucky I guess because I've never had this happen...I get the occasional spam in my mail but never been spammed in tells or friend requests.

    Guess I'm lucky too. Never got the PM spam. It might very well be tied to something like map population or Zone Chat.
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Wow...must be lucky I guess because I've never had this happen...I get the occasional spam in my mail but never been spammed in tells or friend requests.

    Be nice to receive just one of those messages in game without being slapped with a restraint order from the bot after I reply.


    If you reply, just reply with, Bye moron, and report the spam. Better not to reply at all though and simply report, they might use it to flag you for further spam on alt accounts.

    "He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
    Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
    he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
    In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
    He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
    He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
    He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
    He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
  • chrysanthenoirchrysanthenoir Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    Never had it happen until these last couple of weeks but suddenly they flooded in and yes I am seriously considering blocking everything but friends...but it would be better having lets say restrictions of friend requests and pm's from new characters or characters under lets say lvl 30, have a setting so that they may reply if you instigate the contact but not instigate it themselves
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  • johnthestagjohnthestag Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    I've been TRIBBLE twice and cleaned out. After the last time (Around Halloween) I wondered how I was being targeted. I cleared out my friends list of those people I didn't know personally, and suddenly I'm getting these friend requests all the time as well. From the sound of things it's been happening for a while but it was only last night that I ever saw it. It's possible that there's more than just spamming attempts going on here.
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