Mmospam-bots

From EQ2-Daily.com EQ2 Wiki

"Bots" Created for the specific purpose of harvesting user data (via 'who is online' or 'what characters to is active on a given server') to then send spam (using the same bot or another bot) via in game messages (aka "tells") and/or via the in game mail system to advertise products for sale for real world currency.