I haven't gotten one of these in a while.
I actually have my Aion account hacked. I never visited any sites that would contain keyloggers (I scanned my computer.) I also never logged in from any non-official sites and my username/login I ONLY used for aion. They had my NCSoft master account too, which was raelly weird cause I had to go through all these hoops to get my password reset.
The dudes leveled up my templar to 45 (from 23) which would have been awesome if I hadn't already decided to quit.
Its really weird though cause it was obviously used just to farm, and they botted it (very few if any quests done and gear was really subpar). Templars are REALLY slow to level, they could have made a chanter or any other class and outleveled the Templar in a day. So strange, and I still don't know how they hacked it. My friend did know my PW and Username and his wow account was continuly hacked for a period around then, so it might have been from the keylogger he had downloaded.
Only thing I can think of.
This is why I hate hate hate people who buy in-game gold/items/& accounts. They create the demand which allows these criminal activities into the game. I think laws should be passed to cover sales of in-game items so people can be prosecuted for this shit, because we can't get the farmers/scammers becasue they are in other countries.
Make the penalty like you can't access the internet for life and you go on the sex offender list. Really extreme. =P
Seriously though, some of these scams would easily reach felony levels if you apply a monetary value to the accounts (which in some cases could be pretty high.) I was offered $1200 for a Sony account I had (I should have taken it =P) It had a 70 ranger in top end game gear + a ton of other Chars on EQ and a jedi in SWG. The offer was made a week before they made SWG into some stupid twitch shooter. I turned it down because it was a significant amount of money, but I was too attached to my ranger =P Even though I didnt play, I just couldn't part with it. The guy originally offered me just $800 for the jedi but I explained I had other accounts on the sony account and he raised the offer because he played EQ.
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