Thieves use free-to-play games to turn stolen credit-card numbers into cash

doctorow · July 21, 2018, 1:48am

Michael_R_Smith · July 21, 2018, 2:07am

Its all fun and games until those credit card numbers get diverted from a trade with the Russian mafia.

Money laundering through online games was the major theme of the Neal Stephenson novel Reamde.

Kimmo · July 21, 2018, 2:08am

Why can’t these in-game currencies be um, watermarked(?) to be tied to their owners, and currency trading banned?

Glaurung · July 21, 2018, 2:19am

Because then the game company would not sell as much in game currency and would make less profit.

MadLibrarian · July 21, 2018, 2:43am

I got two words for ya: Gold Farmers.

Grey_Devil · July 21, 2018, 3:43am

These grey markets are cancer, is G2G related to G2A?

Kimmo · July 23, 2018, 2:55am

So regulate the fuckers.

shmello · July 23, 2018, 10:00pm

Dammit. Reality is taking all the fun out of my cyberpunk.

doctorow · July 26, 2018, 2:03am

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