A long term friend of mine from live back in the day used to do a lot of duping. He flew under the radar. I only learned later that he had done it and he told me how it had been done.
Apparently it was a 2 man job but he'd trade all his money and items to be duped to friend at a zone line - friend zones and he used 3rd party programs to instantly crash the zone. When zone came back up his friend would have all the items and coin in the next zone and he would have been restored to his last save which had all the items back on his person. They later fixed this by forcing an immediate character save when a player transaction was completed.
Iirc he used MQ2 to crash the zone - no idea how really.
Allegedly there were other ways, but I'm not in the know.
Thankfully here, having programs like MQ2 running is quickly detectable and punishable. On live right now, it's still a rampant problem that SoE continues to turn a blind eye to. I suspect if they instantly banned all accounts that used MQ2 the server population would drop by 80%. There is probably a smaller proportion of individuals than that using the program, but many of those who do use it have 3-6 accounts and run their little box armies.
It's easy to spot when they hunt in open areas, but these days everyone is off hiding safely in instances.
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