[Hotwheels]

(05-13-2013 10:28 AM)Eirykr Wrote:  

One in particular involved a private bank setting up business on EVE Online, offering interest to members who invested. There was no protection or insurance. So one day everyone who had invested in that bank woke up with all their game funds gone. The bank had stolen billions of in-game money from everyone who invested in them and presumably sold it online for thousands of real world dollars. Players tried to get the company who develops EVE to step in and freeze the fraud bankers' accounts, but they have a strict Caveat Emptor policy regarding in-game businesses.

That's pretty hot.