There is a strange story on Reddit: A user had not logged into his Epic Game Store account for months. It was only months later that he found out that the account had been stolen. The new owner had spent more than 330 hours on the MMO GTA Online. People who are robbed but profit from it – this is not an isolated case in the world of gaming.
This is what the player says: User ThegreatestSaiyan wrote on reddit in mid-May:
You can easily spend hundreds of hours with GTA Online:
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How is this discussed? The phenomenon seems to be well known: players lose accounts, get them back and then realize that the account is more valuable than before.
Why couldn’t the thief secure the account? The thief had the name of the Epic account and the password, but he was missing the password of the email account with which the owner was registered, he suspects.
Therefore, the thief could not secure the Epic account, but lost the account again when the real owner claimed it and changed the password.
This is what the player is advised to do: Another user on Reddit recommends that the original owner report to Epic that the account has been compromised, as the account may have been involved in illegal activities.
In any case, it is good that he has already changed his password – but an additional ticket is advisable.
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This is my experience with it: I, Schuhmann from MeinMMO, confess that something similar happened to me during my time at WoW, about 10 years ago:
The strange thing was that Blizzard support refunded the “lost gold” to me without any problems. However, the hackers had not yet completed the transaction. Some of the money was still scattered around mailboxes all over Azeroth, from which I was able to get it back.
Ultimately, I didn’t lose any gold in WoW during the campaign, but instead made a huge profit.
However, in the last 10 years, many MMORPGs have switched to 2-factor authentication, so such stories should actually be rarer than they were back then.
The risks of buying accounts on the Internet
This is what lies behind it: The story is exactly the reason why people are warned against buying accounts on the Internet. Because it may not be the real owner who is selling the account, but a thief. Then the account you bought is quickly gone and the time you invested in it is lost.
There are also people who sell their accounts in MMORPGS like WOW, but then get the account back as soon as a new expansion comes out and they feel like logging in again.
Account trading is big business, especially in MMORPGs, but there are always mishaps and strange stories. One of the most curious stories revolves around an MMORPG character that was sold for far too little money: Chinese man invests €1.3 million in MMORPG character – friend sells him for €500