For starters; I'm quoting directly out of my most recent LJ entry as it gives enough background information to be a coherant opener.
One of our members got his account frozen mid-jack and when he got it back there was a Gil delivery caught in mid-transaction to an "Odidongbei" which is clearly an RMT account meant to fence stolen goods. A quick /sea all Odi revealed several players who use "Odi[insert-rest-of-name-here]". Nearly ALL of these accounts were /anon and in zones with Auction Houses. I went and tracked a couple of them down. Each one had no gear equipped whatsoever and had a number in their little boxes that pop up when you examine them.
Taking the "Odi" name to FFXIAH.com revealed that there were TONS of "Odi" mules in existance. Going a step further, others in my LS report that other servers have similiar mules that begin with the first three letters of any given server's name.
REPORT THESE PLAYERS. When asked why you're reporting them; cite their AH history. Most of these accounts literally never leave town and yet you can plainly see them selling Haguns and other very common, expensive items that they have stolen from real players like you and me. A great many of them are still level n00b with no subjob. The fact that they're carrying and transferring millions of gil should throw up all kinds of red flags if we push for an investigation on these accounts.
I haven't asked for permission to report the names of the stolen account (we had two jacked in my endgame shell) so I'll keep from throwing names around without having been given the okay. Unfortunately my ability to look into this is limited to just Odin; but I would love to see if there are indeed other mules doing the same things on other servers. Find them! Find them and help call enough attention to these bastards to help the Special Task Force get its eye on them. Sure they'll just crop up again under different names; but damnit. These victimized players deserve some form of revenge. We need another wave of mass bannings pronto.
I have no idea if this is really appropriate for the Advanced Players boards; but it seemed like the kind of thing that would be better off being shared on a wider scale somehow. I do hope this helps at least somewhat. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
