Whats up with Virgoods?

In tombs and Competition arena, i see random people spamming the same message about virgoods.com and saying something about buying GW gold.
Anyone else notice this?

They were spamming pre-Searing Ascalon City as well a couple of nights ago, in districts 1 and 2. Quite annoying. Reminded me of the spambots that took over Battle.net. The horror...the horror...

As long as they stay out of mission areas, I could care less about them. Who unmutes their general chat in towns anymore anyway? :P

I keep my general chat on...but usually dont pay attention to it :P

They are spam-bots of a company that sells gold. Why they try and advertise in tombs I do not know. PvP chars really need gold.

WTS 100 Plats for 10000 faction!

there are alot of them during the day (bout 5 in popular districts in tombs) and 2 of them are probably bots, the other 3 are just ppl that likes to piss ppl off and is copying the bots :P i know this becuz i had a convo w/ one lo

Well I report everyone of them I see, so I would advise you do not do it to annoy as these accounts get banned.

and on that matter. you notice that they are having a sale this weekend?? i've already got myself 400k. be quick before its all sold out!!

j/k please don't ban me *cowers behind sofa, trembling in fear*

they are really starting to get on my nerves. 5 i've reported so far. how many people must actually buy gold for it to be profitable to keep buying so many accounts? it MUST be profitable what they are doing.

Someone told me in tombs that you get a keylogger if you went there and i did to check it out.

Don't go to the websites guys, just to be sure.

Send support a ticket and get them out of the community.

I'm going Bot hunting again.

I wonder if anet could put some code in to flag accounts who say the word virgoods.com ingame. That way the support guys can take a look and take quick action against anyone from that website advertising.

A.net is actively pursuing these botters and appreciates all of the help from those that continue to report them. Any more detailed information would have to come from Gaile herself.

just one thing i wanted to say here - unless you really plan on buying from them, dont go to virgoods.com... all it does is increase the amount of money they get from advertising as well as encourage them to continue botting.

no, they dont.

I saw advertised (about a month ago) that you could "buy" guild-wars accounts with all skills unlocked... for only $499.

Since it goes against the EULA, couldn't they contact the ISP that hosts that site and legally force them to take it down?

As we've discussed many times, those aspects of EULA's are difficult to legally enforce. Sure ANet can close the accounts, but taking down the websites? I don't think so. Otherwise all the other auction and sales sites would already be sanctioned. The only thing you can do is not give them any business. If they don't make a profit, they'll go away.

I've encounter one in Competition arena, it was spamming some crappy site about getting free Ipods and all, you know the kind of site where you get attacked by pop ups until your computer crashes.

First I thought it was a human player but the next day it was still there pamming so it was probably a bot or a person with no life.

Actually you're very wrong.
The more ppl report them, the more chances they will be banned if they get enough complaints.

Simply because someone is an A-hole one day does not mean that 1-report will get that A-hole banned/suspended. If he got 3-4 reports then that's a sure *I am a jerk* sign he's painting.

Same thing with in-game vendors. They change name often and move their bots around so Anet can't find them.

If ppl keep reporting them they'll be found eventually.