MMORPG Gamer Kidnapped For Password!

July 23, 2007 · Filed Under Gaming, General, MMOments, Musings, Online

If you’re one of the top MMO players in the world, beware. Some greedy bastards might just abduct you for your password.

This happened recently in Sao Paolo, Brazil when an armed gang of four kidnapped one the world’s best gamers.

To quote that report; “An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.”

The story gets better… read on…

Apparently, after taking the dude to a safehouse and holding him at gunpoint, the player still did NOT give the password. They let him go. Moments later, the police were storming the hoodlums and caught all of them - suspects aged 19 to 27 with access to guns and some brain cells for planning this out.

Their plan was simple enough: lure the player using Orkut while using the victim’s girlfriend to set him up for apparent “date”. There, the 4 jackals pounced on the unsuspecting victim.

What game was he playing, you ask?

Gunbound.

Moral of the story. You’re better off with another game. Hehehe.

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Comments

6 Responses to “MMORPG Gamer Kidnapped For Password!”

nimrod on July 24th, 2007 10:39 am

suspects aged 19 to 27 with access to guns and some brain cells for planning this out

ROFL that was funny

those guys are so stupid…
hahaha!!!
Blackwolf on July 24th, 2007 12:43 pm

Potah naman, hanlabo. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just the beginning. Kung Gunbound pa lang, pagiinitan ka na, what more WoW or LotR or even Hello Kitty Online…?
GM T on July 24th, 2007 3:44 pm

I wouldn’t even DARE go out alone if I were the top player in Hello Kitty Online! Rawrr!!!

GM T
Lord Ken on July 26th, 2007 1:32 am

grabe nmn yan GM Tristan kakatakot /wah
mmorpgtester on July 29th, 2007 9:11 pm

First of all, This seems a little odd. How would they know he lived in the area of where they were. And once they did find out. How did they know he was of age to even be intrested in dates. Most little kids play the games like that.

Kind of makes me wonder. How many people pretend to be a female to lure in the better playing - players of games, just to see if they live in the area, there old enouph to even be intrested. “drive”.
And here is another, what if that top player is not a guy at all.

I’m sorry just to many variables dont fit. This has got to be a joke.
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