I never used any hacks that would give me an unfair advantage over the claiming of notorious monsters. I wouldn't need to, nor would I want to. It looks obvious as hell, most of the time it doesn't work, and why would I? I'm not in a HNM shell, I'm not even in a shell that camps NMs for the member's gains. I do sky, and sure there's the odd frustration with Ulli, like there is everyone, but I never for one moment even considered loading up Argus or whatever crap piece of programming to claim him.
I can prove this because, if you looked at my claiming record within my shell, you'll see that the only times I've ever exclaimed "MINE!" are times when there's been no competition, or the competition has been in the middle of killing a statue.
I never AFK botted, I never saw the need in it. I don't like fishing, and my computer is too noisy to run over night, so that was always out of the question.
Edit, and I say 'frequently', this was more to get you guys riled up. It was more like every monday morning around 9 AM, when I would use them to get to Fire in the sky. I can only think of one other instance within the last week of me playing where I used them outside of getting to the ENM, so it's only frequently in the sense that I did it on a regular pattern of times, not that I would load it up to zoom over to the AH in Aht Urhgan to save myself some running time.