Man arrested for hacking RS accounts

[FortyTillFive]

Makes me lol.

 

[Gearsz]

Fail, I Lol'd. Wow too serious.

 

[orlando_jordan]

It's just a game, not real life sheesh!

 

Hm... This is where it gets tricky.

If you look at it:

What's Jagex or whoever filed the charge, going to press? Thefting of stolen goods?

Even so... a criminal suit must be called to action of the good is at the value of $20 I believe? Who gets to set the pricing on the account?

How can they determine if he was actually stealing the account? It's the internet, you can't be sure of anything.

Hm... I don't like this.

 

[Excel']

It takes less than 10 minutes to make a phishing site and no effort is required.. obviously Jagex have done this as a one off scare tactic but they won't take it overseas or do this again.

 

[Straggler]

For the people who are like, If they're stupid enough to fall for it, they deserve what they got, that's like saying people who fell victim to a Ponzi scheme or con artist should just live with their mistake...no. Even if you manage to trick someone into giving you their property for an unworthy cause, it's still illegal.

 

[tomnothere]

Hm... This is where it gets tricky.

If you look at it:

What's Jagex or whoever filed the charge, going to press? Thefting of stolen goods?

Even so... a criminal suit must be called to action of the good is at the value of $20 I believe? Who gets to set the pricing on the account?

How can they determine if he was actually stealing the account? It's the internet, you can't be sure of anything.

Hm... I don't like this.

The charges they're going to press is most likely intellectual property theft. The guy most likely did a phishing website, which takes Jagex's website designs that were made by people from Jagex. Phishing is illegal and is a prosecutable crime. And I wonder if this is why Fagex redirected their entire website to google.uk

 

[Minner]

Made me "lol" when I read it

 

[Craize]

wow .

 

[dam prayer noobs]

If your sad enough to waste your time hacking/stealing peoples accounts then you should be arrested.

It's his time, why do you care how he uses it?

 

[Ian]

All governments are corrupt, No matter what shape or form it is in. It just matters which is least corrupt such as the us but becoming more and more corrupt day by day. Thanks to the great president Barak Obongo Obama



I really do not care, if your a big enough nerd to steal Digital/Picture goods you need to go to jail for some help or something.

I agree with you 100% with a lot of the governments being corrupt. By the way its Barak oh' Bahhhhhma because all the sheep like to follow him.

 

[Guineapigcal]

Haha, what a loser. Maybe he'll finally learn to quit a pointless game in the big house. Sucks to be him =) ... couldn't he just buy a beast account of Sythe anyway.

 

[Acidman]

IF this is even true then the government is so corrupt there. Its a virtual game and virtual item. How can someone get arrested for stealing a virtual item.

If you think its a good thing for this person to get arrested then you want no rights. Its not illegal to steal a runescape account and should never be!

The only way this person should be arrested for is fraud of a real item.

Its funny how Runescape admits that so many people waste their social and overall lives playing this game. Its really too bad that this game is so peoples life.

Phishing is illegal.

 

[Sportsplayer792]

I expect there trying to put a warning out by taking this case out of proportion.

Exactly. Plus when someone sees a headline "Man arrested for stealing online game accounts" they are going to be like, what the hell? So then they read the article and some people will go, hmm, maybe I'll try the game. It's a win win for Jagex. Scare the shit out of hackers, and get their name out there with the world in a ridiculous story that many people will see.

 

[hiway_2_hell]

Lmaooo Rs Is Serious Aint It!

 

[iGrime]

If people are stupid enough to post details into phising sites, they derserve to get scammed/hacked imo.

 

[I Love Runescape!]

see this is what needs to happen to those bad people who do bad stuff

 

[glamazonia]

23 years old and he's still playing this game? That's pretty sad. Especially sad that he put up all the effort required to phish accounts.. honestly lol

Some of the old school players who have been around since near the beginning are in their 20's. It doesn't make it sad, I think it is pretty neat, unless they devote the majority of their time to the game. If they have jobs and know how to manage their time, etc...imo it is perfectly fine to still log in every so often.


Anyways back to the topic...It is pretty ew any way you look at it pretty much. Kind of a shame to get in so much trouble for stealing something that isn't "real", but it is still sad to see people fall for such things. If someone is crazy enough to believe that they can get "free 20m" just from logging into some site or by giving someone they do not know anything about whatsoever...their passwords, then that is a lesson they will just have to learn. Since phishing is illegal however, the guy took that risk... :love:

 

[inpherus]

i read this in the MX paper, but it said that he sold a rs acc for $8200 on ebay or something?

 

[Jb's World.]

What is so great about this game... fucking idiot should be arrested for hacking kids account they obviously spent time on it and he's going around destroying there time and effort.