Gold Seller Spam Messages Were Based on a (Now Fixed) Bug

Blizzard President Mike Ybarra tweeted about a recent fix the Diablo 4 team made related to the recent rash of gold seller spam.

It seems the reason some players were getting so many spam messages was a bug that allowed others to see your full battle.net ID. With it they could then friend request messages containing links to gold selling sites, like this:

The bots are back in town

I have been getting them almost on the hour since D4 release
by u/FPS_Casey in diablo4

Luckily, the bug has now been fixed and Blizzard will be taking action against the accounts that used this method.

We had a bug in UI where users could see full https://t.co/mLNXyv1kce IDs and spam them in D4. I'm sure some of you have the "buy/sell gold" spam messages. It's been fixed and will take a bit to weed it the bad players. Mainly JFYI communication on this – we know it's annoying.

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) July 11, 2023

It’ll great to see these finally disappear!