Large Group Of RMT/BOTS/???

Has anyone seen a large group of level 1 RSE equipped people running around in packs? Some of them were in bronze harnesses, some were naked, etc.

My friend Sandolphon and I were going to Norg to start the Leviathan quest when we ran into about 12 people in level 1 RSE with Great-axes on, so we decided to follow them because of how suspicious they were. They all got on Chocobos from Kazham and we followed them all the way to Sea Serpent Grotto, where they all ran through to Norg without getting any aggro (they were all /anon so we didn't know what level they were, but they all had starter RSE on and great-axes). Once all 12 of them were in Norg, they went to the Samurai quest NPC and then Instant warped. We /tell'd them asking what they were doing and they responded in auto-translate: "Samurai Quest"

An LSmate saw them today too, in Norg again, and he said he was going to report them if they didn't tell him what they were doing. And supposedly (I say supposedly here because I don't believe him) they gave him "20mil" to keep him mouth shut.

Just weirdness. Anyone else seen this?