Michael3190 wrote: Selorex wrote: Ouch... Hopefully you unsave all your passwords etc... Hackers are using in-game currency to aide in their secrecy. I know a few hackers that will wash their hands with in-game currency using WoW. They'll purchase the in-game with whatever method in which they've breached and then they'll use the buy/sell process of virtual currency to wash their hands, they'll then take that cash and purchase BitCoins and wash their hands yet again into the virtual world of gaming coming out pretty clean. I'd definitely contact Paypal although I'm a bit skeptical that they'll be able to help. Very interesting. MMORPGs as a method of money laundering. Oh brave new world.



I was very intrigued when I learnt this as well. I mean there's limited red flags that the outside eyes see with two players making a normal trade. The logs will only show a trade being made if no chat between the two parties are happening. Therefore the only red flag that it'll throw up is someone "giving" another player a large sum of gold. That in itself would be a minor red flag but when you're looking at it from a different perspective, there could be tons of reasons as to why they just made a huge gold trade for no reason.

If you think about it, it's actually pretty smart if you know how to deal your cards right. The only thing you'd have to be worried about is your logs being pulled for the suspicious activity of large gold trades. Even so with RuneScape, if your account is banned it's still FTP (Free-to-play) so you can create another account and do the same thing over again if you were banned. Interesting to say the least.