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Mr.Nicklebe
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in EVE Online
I tried the EVE trial a while ago, not the game for me, but i found the game interesting none the less.
Anyway to my point, i've heard from several people about a famous (the the MMO world) spy/theft that occured in EVE where someone managed to infiltrate a corporation remain undercover for several months before destroying the corporation and/or stealing alot of its stuff.
I'm sure what i've heard isnt the exact thruth but i've been searching and searching and i cant find anything on this story, i'd like to know more.
Thanks.
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Your probably talking about this: http://www.wirm.net/nightfreeze/part1.html
Or the more recent and bigger one: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eve-Online-Economy-Suffers-700-billion-ISK-Scam-33737.shtml
a little about it
If pitbulls could lock their jaw the first pitbull would still be hanging on
here you go, best link i could find to it right now tbh Clicky
If pitbulls could lock their jaw the first pitbull would still be hanging on
The infiltration has been performed by the GHSC corporation (Guiding Hand Social Club). The GHSC agents infiltrated the corporation and established themselves as 'trusted' memebrs.
At some point, I believe it has taken about 6 months, give or take, they have removed all assets and ISK, including numerous BPO (blueprint originals) from the corporation hangars, they have further attacked the CEO, destroyed his ship and poded him.
The CEO of GHSC is Istvaan Shogaatsu. He is actually an ecxellent fiction writer and unlike so many other pirates and scammers wannabees in EVE has a degree of panache and flare when it comes underhanded activities.
By any degree, at the time, it was the biggest scam to be perperrated in EVE universe. It is no longer the case. Biggest scam to date is the EIB, EVE Investment Bank, fiasco - which resulted in close to 700 Billion ISK being scamed from unsuspecting customers.
What it turned into is rather sordid, the guy who scamed the stuff sold his gains on E-Bay, his accounts got banned, but he did make a nice penny in the process.
Further information can be found here(on GHSC Heist): http://eve.klaki.net/heist/
GHSC Website: http://www.tribaltrustofpator.net/fiction/GuidingHandSocialClub.html
You are thinking of the Guiding Hand Social Club heist. Its rather old news as it happened about a year and a half ago. Amazing that its still traveling around.
There have been a few editorials online about it, even in a few magazines.
You can read the PC Gamer article at this website. There is also an article in The New Scientist, but it isn't online anymore...
...I uploaded the New Scientist article temporarily here.
There was a more recent event of theft, though of a different scale. It was more of a huge ponzi scam involving a player run bank and an unconfirmed amount of ISK, though the scammer had access to literally hundreds of billions. Look up "EIB scam" for more info on that.
If pitbulls could lock their jaw the first pitbull would still be hanging on
Frankly, I'm surprised the guy hasn't been arrested yet.
In one of the Asian countries, they arrested a guy for beating up another guy in-game, taking his sword, and selling it on eBay for real money. It was considered assault/battery and theft, and the guy is (if I remember correctly) still doing hard time in the local prison.
What this guy (Cally) has done is tantamount to corporate fraud, especially considering all of that money (in-game or not) can be transferred to real life, however indirectly. That 700 billion ISK really is worth over $80,000 and through game time cards, eBay, and a little bit of time, this guy could get that real money and spend it.
As far as I know, UK and US Tax guys are pretty much the same, they dont care how you made your money, just that you made it, even if it is selling ISK for cash on E-Bay, and they would want their cut.
All CCP has to do, really, is furnish info to tax agencies in UK, and Cally will find himself in pretty hot water.
closed. CCP was definately monitoring this guy after the scam
came out.
Anyway, at this point it is all a pure speculation on our part. But, you dont have to be a rocket scientist to circumvent any traces of ISK transfers and goods transfers in EVE. Really easy to do and no way a GM can catch it, and then prove anything. So I am sure Cally made out like a thief (almost an apropriate pawn), on the EIB scam.