Online white-collar crime in EVE

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Aron Schatz

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Online white-collar crime in EVE

Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:00:39 PM #22166 Perm Link

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060828-7605.html

Looks like an online 'banker' stole a bunch of play money from people in EVE. Well MMORPG people, please chime in on this one.

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Nihilistic Mystic Joined: December 19, 2005 Status: Offline Posts: 92 Rep:

Re: Online white-collar crime in EVE

Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:32:53 PM #22168 Perm Link

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That is hillarious. I am really dissapointed with the boring video this guy left though. This sort of thing happens in these games alot. In WoW for example you need to have at least one if not several extra "bank" characters to effiecnely run a large guild. If a guild falls apart on bad terms there is nothing stopping the person with the guild bank on his account from transfering to another server or petition a GM for a name change and disappear into obscurity. Im sure it has happened thousands of times. I have also heard of, people creating investment banks in WoW trading on the auction house, but personallyI would never waste my hard earned fake money on that sort of crap.

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Re[2]: Online white-collar crime in EVE

Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:41:56 PM #22172 Perm Link

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I just watched the video. Most boring thing, ever.

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Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:07:14 PM #22177 Perm Link

Now if this guy goes on a site such as gamepal.com and sells all his ill gotten fake money he could make a tidy little profit. While reselling I am sure violates the games terms of use and will get his account cancelled, he can make quite a bit of money.
Assuming they will buy all of it, they list a maxium of 2 billion on the site, but still

390 billion IDK on GamePal.com =

We will pay $31,200 for your currency.

Wow.

So let's say he does that. Seems like the cops should be breaking down his door, but all he has really done is broken the terms of service of an online game.

Edited at Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:24:16 AM

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SHCaseRtoZ

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Re: Online white-collar crime in EVE

Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:39:36 AM #22242 Perm Link

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What an asshole. I would have at least made a funnier video. Something like showing the best ship in the game with all the options and saying... 'Yeah, I bought this.'

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