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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
So on a whim today I decided to test something. I logged in to the STO web site and created an account using a bogus email address. I then sent emails to about 10 of my friends' usernames in game. This took all of about 2 minutes.

What kills me about this is that I didn't have to register a CD key to send mail to in game characters, all you need is a web browser and some free time.

I even started looking at the source code to the web site mail page, it would be easy enough to write a program to compose emails and send them, all you need is a list of usernames, which, is easy enough to get from the game, and a wee bit of programming experience.

What the hell guys?

You cant remove spam entirely, but can you at least put a limit to who can send mail to people in game? Make the spammers buy more copies of the game if they want to flood our inboxes with this TRIBBLE.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    WTF?
    they dont even need the Game???
    then the Report Spam feature is just useless
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yeah i don't like that any gold farmer in the world can just drop me a mail without even having the game.

    Checked the website today, wow 8 mails, great I must have a nice stock of energy credits waiting in game if all my items have sold on the exchange...

    http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj13/danny_aindow/STO/GoldSpam2.jpg

    No Joy...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    WTF?
    they dont even need the Game???
    then the Report Spam feature is just useless

    From what I noticed, there is no "report spam" feature attached to your mailbox, unless I missed something. I got 6 spam mails yesterday and couldn't find the report button, just delete. I also have the sneaking suspicion that "reporting spam" on in-game chat just puts the person on your ignore list.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    /whitelist_emails
    Toggles the whitelist for all chat. If enabled, you will only receive emails from friends, SG members, and Team members


    Tada... No more spam!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Chat wrote:
    /whitelist_emails
    Toggles the whitelist for all chat. If enabled, you will only receive emails from friends, SG members, and Team members


    Tada... No more spam!

    That is a band-aid, not a fix.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    mental405 wrote: »
    That is a band-aid, not a fix.
    It's usable for now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    What about the spammers that are flooding our Forum PM boxes?

    Can you guys do anything about that???

    Current Offenders:
    asdgheer
    jlluth

    Who they work for:
    HooYoo Information Technology Co. Ltd.
    15/F Block A, Chuangxin Building, Software Park, Xiamen Fujian 361005
    China
    86.5928062888
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's a debacle. I've never played an MMO where I got gold seller spam directly to my ingame mailbox.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    that is kinda disturbing......
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    mental405 wrote: »
    Chat wrote:
    /whitelist_emails
    Toggles the whitelist for all chat. If enabled, you will only receive emails from friends, SG members, and Team members


    Tada... No more spam!
    That is a band-aid, not a fix.
    It’s a simple short term solution, that would defiantly help a lot! :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yeah, I logged in... saw 8 messages... asked myself how many were gold farm spammers... checked my messages... 1 from the exchange because I sold a MkIV Tactical kit and 7 from spammers. :mad:

    Nothing like that warm fuzzy feeling you get from knowing people love you enough to spam you.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    That really is something they should fix. You should have an nontrial account before you can send or receive mail so at least they'd get some cash from the spammers and cut out a lot of the TRIBBLE flooding our mailboxes.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Is it really that hard to put controls in place to avoid this? You have a band-aid in place, but at the very least make people pay for the game before they are allowed to send e-mails as it was suggested earlier or remove sending e-mail to the game from the forums.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    WTF?
    they dont even need the Game???
    then the Report Spam feature is just useless


    oh wow. u only found that out now!

    i found that in the beta.

    Cryptic have f uped. pretty badly.. in alot of the area's

    i can gladly. say this is my last game i will ever buy from them..
    and my last sub.. i will run to the end. and then.. BIN !

    cause.. now when i think of Cryptic.. i some how think of My Recycle bin..
    dont know may just be a co-incidence ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Excempt wrote:
    oh wow. u only found that out now!

    i found that in the beta.

    Cryptic have f uped. pretty badly.. in alot of the area's

    i can gladly. say this is my last game i will ever buy from them..
    and my last sub.. i will run to the end. and then.. BIN !

    cause.. now when i think of Cryptic.. i some how think of My Recycle bin..
    dont know may just be a co-incidence ;)

    Actually he found it out over 2 months ago, you necroed the thread.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Excempt wrote:
    oh wow. u only found that out now!

    i found that in the beta.

    Cryptic have f uped. pretty badly.. in alot of the area's

    i can gladly. say this is my last game i will ever buy from them..
    and my last sub.. i will run to the end. and then.. BIN !

    cause.. now when i think of Cryptic.. i some how think of My Recycle bin..
    dont know may just be a co-incidence ;)

    Holy Necroposting, Batman!
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