EVE General Discussion

you always see in jita local WTB 2 plex for like 1.5 Bil with a pre-made contract there which only gives 1.5 Mil

while i personally have never fallen for 1 of these scams i get the feeling a lot of people have and i question its legality. while it may not be against the EULA it is still technically fraud the person is in effect being conned and as plex has real world value i.e there worth $$$ is it in effect become a legal matter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud

lets face it if i brought 6 plex off ccp and cancelled the direct debt before they took the payment im quite sure i would find my account banned.

while i agree it would be rather petty for someone to take legal action over a game and lets be honest like it or hate it scamming is the life blood of eve i still question its legality

This is legit, because PLEX != Money.

Back before plex, when people traded GTCs through the forums, scamming was prohibited. The major reason was because CCP's involvement in guaranteeing these transfers were the only way for them to work.

Now that plex trading requires no out-of-game trust or information exchange, CCP doesn't need to treat it differently than any other scam. Although I do think they still police out-of-game GTC transfers.

As for in-game scams being fraud, you paid money for something, you got that thing from CCP, and then you lost that thing while playing the game. Weather you were scammed or your ibis got blown up or you decided to give them away, its irrelevant.



This would be fraud, it costs CCP money, and they would come after you.

If I convinced you out of game to buy PLEX with the intention of scamming you AND it working yes!
If it was random with no IRL communication, NO, as the EULA states, all in game items are the sole property of CCP Games.

In either case, good luck getting CCP to release the IRL info of a in game character...

sweet i have the info i needed just covering all my base's before i started doing this myself lol

At least you gave people a heads up and allowed them to add you to their block lists.

CCP isn't responsible for someones greed or inability to read.

Following people around through different threads to harass them is almost definitely against the rules. And you even bothered to do this in a thread a mod had already posted in, to boot.

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CCP, however, can't enact a policy that over rules law. If it's illegal to defraud people out of money on the internet, CCP's policy of encouraging it could even be seen as being complicit - accessories before the fact. IF they take action against the defrauded, making it difficult or impossible to find redress, accessory after the fact. I guess being internet gods can go to your head.

Or, maybe Icelandic law doesn't stretch to cover one of their few profitable industries...the EULA isn't a statement of law. It may surrender or acceed to certain claims or rights, but it cannot override LAW, especially criminal statues. Don't cite the EULA. Cite the LAW.

hahahahaha no