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docbrown
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Everyday a guy from Earth Spacedock will be sending emails to players. He/She will be offerings players credits, master keys, ships in exchange for real money. Be aware this email is a scam designed to target vulnerable players. Third party vendors are known take players money and offer them nothing him them nothing in return.
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It's unfortunate, but enevitable.
My advice is to just delete the messages as soon as you get one.
This is the first time I seen third party vendors target players in game. I been playing Star Trek online since 2012 so it's not old news to me.
Yeah, its unfortunate for the poor guy who ends up falling for these scams. There really no reason to buy master keys and lockbox ships from third party vendors.
That what I did. I report the email as spam and put the person on my list. Hopefully Cryptic does something about it.
Never go near those sites and certainly don't even consider buying from them.
The only marginally positive side to all this is that the game must be seen as profitable to them or they wouldn't bother, so that probably means the game is pretty healthy right now. They wouldn't waste their time on a dying game.
You misread what I wrote in my previous post "I say in game" I knew there were gold spammers in STO but they were easy to ignore until now. The guy I was talking about was using the server to send out emails to every single player in the game. I eventually end up putting the game on my ignore list and report him to Cryptic.
Anyway I don't know why you guys are arguing with me. You people are acting like spammers are a okay thing to have in STO. Just because they appear in every mmo doesn't mean we should have to tolerate them here. Scamming people for their money is a big no-no in my book.
I really don't care if you see Gold Spammers day in and day out. What I care about is how gold spammers are using the game server to spam players inbox. I'm worry that some poor soul might end up falling for the dude scam. That why I create the thread in the first place.
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Sorry...
So what do you to offer to the discussion? If you have nothing to offer than snarky replies then please don't contribute to the post.
Can't cure the world of stupidity.
The next time I seen this email I report it and let customer service know about it.
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You must be one of those people who like to argue for fun. Some people just aren't happy until they get into arguments with other people.
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I personally find that I get more of them in the KDF side. I guess thats a smaller lottery to "win" perhaps.
I've never used one, dont want to, if I cant get it in game I dont get it. I do however feel bad for those new to MMOs who fall foul of such things. And they are an ever present metaphoric wart on the buttocks of MMO gameplay. But like anything, it's easily ignored really. Its two clicks to delete the mails.
It is irksome, but it's one of those things that only collective ignorance of such people can really defeat, they remain in business for a reason sadly.
Just ignore/report,it's your only option really, though I get your annoyance its not THAT bad in the grand scheme of things.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
What makes you think I never seen this before? I seen this before many times. I usually just ignore the email and delete it from my inbox.
You kinda said it yourself docbrown. Unless that was a two sentence typo...
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I've seen this frequently since the game launched, and before that I saw it countless times in WoW, SWG, and every other MMO I've played.
It's also not necessarily a scam (though it can be), but more importantly it's strictly forbidden in all MMO's TOS, and to purchase currency from such sites would put your account in great risk of a perma-ban. Best thing to do is just report every email you get line that, though chances are the gold seller's spam account has already been banned by the time you even see the email yourself.
I was talking about third party websites like player auctions. I heard a lot of bad things from people who try to sell items on that website. I am aware that there are gold spammers in the game. But most of them appear in the game chat channel. You can easily ignore them by turning off the chat in game.
I've been around since... uhh 2013 sometime lol. I've been ignoring chat spam and deleting junk mail for nearly all of my time on STO. If you haven't seen any spam mails until now, I'd like to congratulate you on one hell of a run of good luck.
You can report the mail as spam/junk, but I have my doubts that it'll do any good. I just delete them and move on, 2 seconds and done.
Honestly, I can't recall seeing them in chat channels. Getting spam mails in the in-game mailbox? That's been happening for ages. It's why the "Report Spam" button is there.
The "Report Spam" button is about useful as a Ferengi trader. It just best to delete the email and move on. There really not much people can do when this happen.
Uh? I was talking about third-party websites that sell items to other players. I never say I didn't seen spam before in game.
I don't wanna get rid of spam, it makes tasty sandwiches and is good in grits with cheese and other stuff