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Closed PSA: Investigative Report
A few friends of mine investigated why gold bots are selling premium cash shop goods for such low low prices. They found that the money spent is stolen credits and identity. So the basic layout of the game is as follow:
1.) steal identity/creds
2.) Use it on Cash shop
3.) Sell it cheap to the players
4.) Flip the gold on gold buyers
5.) Profit
This ultimately only works if the community feeds their shenanigans. The moral duty of the Mabi community is to stop supporting gold buyers/bots. Last but not least...who's identity/creds are stolen? Majority of them comes from gold buyers who visits the sites and spend $$$. Everytime you shop @ one you're supporting a crime.
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You're either
A: Lying for some reason.
B: Simply forgetting to include evidence here
C: Not putting evidence here cause rules and stuff.
Add me on Discord, if you got actual evidence. Otherwise, I'm gonna call shenanigans on this.
Xypix#0368
I guess Nexon needs to start banning these shop owners now. Lest Nexon supports crime.
Plus dis is da interweebz.This is kind of what I was going to say, none of the popular gold sites would be willing to ruin their reputation over that, and none of the players using it would want their reputation damaged either. When you're operating on trust it's the last thing you'd be willing to risk. Which is why I'd like proof of this "investigation" that was done, otherwise I'm going to dismiss it as generic FUD.
Going to miss those cheap reforges eh?
While I dont buy from them, I am a pedant and OP seems super confident in their claim so show us the proof otherwise /thread.
Theres probably better ways to make profit from stolen credentials than reselling some stuff from an unpopular mmo
So yeah @Apologist show us the money since you feel the need to add a condescending gif like that.
No one is going to get any proof. If this being investigated at all, Nexon is going to be the only ones that would have it. I.e. charge backs from disputes filed from banks. I would hope Nexon is investigating this. I hope people who have had their identities compromised are smart enough to check on their accounts to check for any fraud. I hope that Nexon experiences enough charge backs from users like this to start banning them.
Nexon doing an investigation is a separate matter unless OP is doing it with them.
Not really. I don't buy from those stores anyway but it's nice of you to assume I do. There's plenty of other things that could be going on rather than people having their identities stolen for GP in a relatively obscure MMO. Just a quick idea would be people cashing out steam marketplace goods, while against ToS and probably risky it's more sound than what op is suggesting.
This gif is my tradition.
I agree that credit card fraud is the likely case of most of these sellers. However, it is not the responsibility of Mabi players to determine these cases and actually avoid buying from alt accounts. Someone will always buy, and if they don't they'll use this fraud elsewhere.
Credit companies work with fraudulent cases like these and reimburse customers with lost funds, it's their job, not the job of Mabi players.
No one is supporting crimes if they buy from these. The only guilty ones are the sellers.