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[Soodanim]

Spam = DDOS now? Sure. InigoMontoya.jpg

Also, the arguments seem to centre around whether or not Sony act quickly and appropriately enough to reports of misuse. It is reasonable to expect them to deal with it, and if they do then what's the problem?

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Simple fix, just block em

https://www.playstation.com/en-au/g...station-4-to-block-or-unblock-a-playstation-/

For you and anyone else advising to block them... It's USELESS!

They generate users at will, blocking does not stop this.

Check the screenshots in the OP.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Just set it so you can only get messages from Friends, not Everyone.

 

[MaximumSpider]

Opened that website out of curiosity and greeted with this.

God what a scummy piece of shit.

Can Sony slam this website?

 

[FingerBang]

I had no idea this was a thing, but I rarely play with random people online. Let's make sure Sony knows and they might solve it.

Or you can stop using that character and/or quit Overwatch. Easy!

 

[NEO0MJ]

I find it sad how vehement people are I defending Sony for how little they care about this issue.

 

[Gxgear]

Wait, so people here actually thinks that paying $60 entitles you to not know how to work an existing setting that prevents you from getting spammed in the first place?

 

[ricelord]

welp who ever had spam me seen the thread, time to set only friends messages.

 

[Soodanim]

Wait, so people here actually thinks that paying $60 entitles you to not know how to work an existing setting that prevents you from getting spammed in the first place?

It's not a perfect solution though. The obvious thing being that you can't again receive messages from strangers you play with that want to communicate with you.

 

[Lichter]

That's completely nuts.

 

[ldcommando]

welp who ever had spam me seen the thread, time to set only friends messages.

Either that or someone in this thread saw your psn name on your profile and is now fucking with you.

 

[Gxgear]

It's not a perfect solution though. The obvious thing being that you can't again receive messages from strangers you play with that want to communicate with you.

You can friend invite AND attach a message at the same time.

What you can't do is stop people from being idiots on the internet, no matter what platform it's on.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

And people are defending Sony's apathy on this. Unbelievable.

 

[Team Klimt]

Blocking doesn't work. It's a new user each message. Same scam "free psn card" message sent to a group. Leaving the group does nothing. Blocking sender does nothing.

 

[OdysseusVA]

And people are defending Sony's apathy on this. Unbelievable.

You're trying too hard

 

[eXistor]

I never give out my PSN and I've been getting that fake PSN code nonsense as well. I block 'em everytime but it doesn't matter.

 

[StayDead]

I'm a victim of the random group messaging spam.

edit: Went in an turned off who can message me to friends only.

Yeah same. Although I turned it off last week.

 

[immortal-joe]

Blatant bribery. Shut these fools down.

 

[xJavonta]

Then they should learn how to use their fucking equipment.

I'd put money on it that at least 10% of the carnival of stupid on this thread re-use passwords, will have had at least one account with their details compromised and still try and blame a third party when their shit gets stolen.

This is how bad tech and UI is made.

Good UI and product development is made with the user in mind. Hiding shit in a sea of unintuitive menus isn't good product design.

 

[Noisepurge]

You can friend invite AND attach a message at the same time.

Don't give the spammers any ideas now!

 

[Sanpei]

thanks for the site...

i have a surprise for my friend ahahaha

 

[kurahador]

thanks for the site...

i have a surprise for my friend ahahaha

....

 

[jacob armitage]

This why i have PSN set only allow messages from friends.

 

[Cranster]

I have had a similar situation on Xbox Live but not to that extent. Basicaly it was somebody who wanted to purchase my Bungie.net account. Definitely a phishing scam.

 

[kimifan141]

i actually reported one such message to sony , only to get schooled by them saying they did not find it as spam, and i should use the report button more carefully in future

 

[Septimius]

Opened that website out of curiosity and greeted with this.

God what a scummy piece of shit.

i actually reported one such message to sony , only to get schooled by them saying they did not find it as spam, and i should use the report button more carefully in future

Holy crap. That's fucked up.

 

[biteren]

yeah, this is pretty fucked.

i tweeted Shu about it, hopefully he saw it

i havent recieved spam like this, but i think im getting into that territory due to a few salty messages i get sometimes.

 

[SephiZack]

I have never received spam even though my privacy settings are set to "everyone", but after reading this thread I will change it to friends only

 

[dc89]

thanks for the site...

i have a surprise for my friend ahahaha

"Friend"

 

[Jaguar Victory]

thanks for the site...

i have a surprise for my friend ahahaha

I really hope you're joking

 

[Megawarrior]

This is how bad tech and UI is made.

Good UI and product development is made with the user in mind. Hiding shit in a sea of unintuitive menus isn't good product design.

It's literally one click away from your profile page.

 

[Jaguar Victory]

I have had a similar situation on Xbox Live but not to that extent. Basicaly it was somebody who wanted to purchase my Bungie.net account. Definitely a phishing scam.

Congrats on the req pack gift from a friend in Halo 5 though. LOL

This sort of thing is why I set PSN to only friends can message you.

Side-bonus: randoms can't message you to change your Overwatch character.

 

[test_account]

Not last I checked (PS3). Sony really dropped the ball in regards to privacy settings.

When was the last time you checked? This has been possible for years now

You know spam filters are a thing right? They're not science fiction. Or how about better catchas? Notice how these fucks can effortlessly generate PSN users at will for their spam service.

And friends only is a terrible solution.

How do you know that they create these effortless and that a different captcha would have made a big difference? Creating accounts manually is no big deal either. And what do you mean with spam filters? Really dont think this is a widespread issue that they need to add a spam folder on the Playstations.

 

[Sanpei]

I really hope you're joking

of course joking...

This topic is advertising that site...I didnt know that kind of thing existed until i read here

 

[Melchiah]

For a paid service PSN is trash.

But hey, #fortheplayers and Kaz gifs right?

Locking everybody out of messaging you is a shit solution. Many of the people in my friends list are there because of post game banter.

You're not locking friends out, but those that aren't on your list.

 

[Darren_z33]

You're not locking friends out, but those that aren't on your list.

He means he made new friends from randoms messaging him post game. Friends only message setting does not suit him

 

[ty_hot]

I looged in in my old PSN account this week to try to redeem the For Honor beta code and I had 4 group messages like that. I probably logged in this account 3 or 4 times this and last year and never played a game in it. Before that the last time I used it was in 2011.

My current PSn account didnt get any of those messages though.

 

[panty]

i actually reported one such message to sony , only to get schooled by them saying they did not find it as spam, and i should use the report button more carefully in future

Not believing you for a second without proof, sorry.

E: Just to clarify, I've reported multiple abusive messages to Sony and everytime they've thanked me and said to warn/do something to the other person.

 

[KratosEnergyDrink]

Sony doesn't care much about security&privacy in PSN, recent years have shown this fact clearly.

 

[BigEmil]

The guy at spampsn charges you too remove it too think it costs to use it too what a scumbag

 

[hydrophilic attack]

damn what a pathetic loser

 

[comshoplesce]

I got this too, soo anoying.

 

[RageWaffles]

Not believing you for a second without proof, sorry.

E: Just to clarify, I've reported multiple abusive messages to Sony and everytime they've thanked me and said to warn/do something to the other person.

This is what I from Sony after just reporting a group message advertising an "unpatched psn code scraper"

The key text,

We ask all our players to use the reports responsibly. Abusing the report function (for example unfairly targeting other players, or repeatedly using it for content that clearly doesn't need moderation) is against our Code of Conduct, and may lead to action against the abuser.

makes it sound like they're threatening to ban me for reporting scammers

 

[Septimius]

This is what I from Sony after just reporting one of those "get cheap PSN cards here!!" group messages



The key text,


makes it sound like they're threatening to ban me for reporting scammers

Oh, that's just standard text. They're saying "Thank you!", and then than bottom part is probably part of all their communications, by the way I'm reading it.

 

[KORNdoggy]

while i haven't had a continuous stream of messaged like this. i have been added to 2 chats that were giving away "free PSN game codes...they really work!!" lol. i just report them and leave the chat. but even twice is annoying.

 

[xealo]

For those suggesting to just turn off non friend messages as a good solution, wouldn't it be better if Sony implemented something similar to what Steam has, where you have to spend like 5 dollars on PSN to get access to community features?

It's just 1 month of PS+ which just about anyone who's playing with friends will be getting regardless, but it would put a pretty sizeable roadblock for sites that create bot accounts for the purpose of spamming PSN users, if they need to pay for each account to function like they want.

 

[Pantz]

Anyone remember doing this on AOL back in the day?

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Thanks to this thread I went through and changed my privacy settings. I have no need to for anyone but friends messaging me.

 

[krumble]

wondered why I had started getting these shit messages the past week
updating privacy settings now!

 

[Sesuadra]

disgusting human scum.