Account Farmers. (not the friendly minion type.)

Monutan·5/18/2015, 8:42:43 AM·2 votes·754 views

Ive come across a lot of accounts spamming, posting adds for "free" rp, and even asking for account usernames and passwords. Personally, we need a way to report these players who are taking advantage of people, to steal their accounts, sell them, and even promote virus expansion using the league community. I know we have an option to warn us about external links, but there is no way to get these players out of the community. A special ban could be in order, maybe? A certain reporting option for account abuse or attempted theft? I wont fall for it, but someone will, and it is not in line with the summoner code.

5 Comments

Veioh5/18/2015, 8:47:19 AM1 votes

I think something should be implicated, some folks don't know what phishing is. Those who persist upon the ignorant should be punished, banned, or just down right deleted. Who knows how many stolen accounts ive encountered upon my time playing league, the bottom line is that it is wrong, on a very large scale.

Akeydel5/18/2015, 8:52:30 AM1 votes

If you ever come across it out of game, take a screenshot and send riot a support ticket. Same works for any offense thats not in-game.

Deep Terror Nami5/18/2015, 8:54:40 AM1 votes

While there isn't a simple button and option for reporting these types of people, you still can report them; Submit a Support Ticket and they'll have someone look at the account in question. They can't tell you what actions they do or do not take, but they will inform you that they'll look into it.

Carleus5/18/2015, 9:12:10 AM1 votes

It would be really great if there was an easy way to report them... three days from now I had i think it was four accounts that did ask for my password or promotded weird sites were you could get "free" RP...

Sarutobi5/18/2015, 10:00:50 AM1 votes

There are ways to report them via support ticket as others have stated here. I think the reason as to why we don't have a simple report that could be done via client is probably the potential to report them. I mean just think of doing poorly in a game and have people harass you with reports. If anything it would be nice to have a way to show proof with a report function like that. That way when someone reports they need evidence of said "spamming", "advertising", etc.

I'll admit though that I haven't had any people spam my account either in game, or adding me to their buddy list. Probably because I don't add random people, and I sure hope most people don't as well!