A statement from the Police National e-crime unit stated

The arrest may very well be the initial of quite a few targeting fraudsters, stated Jagex. A British man has been arrested and cautioned for stealing accounts on line game. Jagex, creator of Runescape, stated it was likely to become the very first of various arrests because it tackled in-game fraud. On-line game Runescape has far more than 100 million active players and play revolves about collecting and spending virtual cash and loot. Hi-tech thieves target on the web games mainly because virtual goods are simple to launder. Once hi-tech thieves have these credentials they plunder the accounts, strip characters of their things and sell off the uncommon virtual goods for runescape gold. This virtual income is usually traded to others in-game or sold for real world money. The company said it was working with UK police and the FBI to track down and catch those targeting game.

A statement from the Police National e-crime unit stated: “A 23-year-old man was arrested in Avon and Somerset on the morning of Tuesday 24 November by officers from the Police Central e-crime Unit, on suspicion of a number of computer misuse offences.” The offences are believed to be for using phishing e-mails to trick people into handing over login details for Runescape accounts. Trade in game gold is against the terms and conditions of the game and Jagex has made several changes to its underlying code to stamp out gold farming in which players repeat activities that generate lots of virtual cash or valuable items.

Many thieves stole credentials from networks of hijacked home computers - known as botnets - or used them as proxies to make the theft look like it was coming from a legitimate source. “For some of these botnets their sole purpose is to act as a gateway to help fraudsters” he mentioned. ISPs, merchants and other firms were using ways to pierce a proxy and find out that was really in charge of it, mentioned Mr Faulkner. Any way, you should pay a lot more attention on your account and change your account cod to a difficult one without logical.