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Friday 29 April 2011

Cyber crime in Online Games

Online game industry is rapidly developing nowadays. Online games like Second Life, World of Warcraft, Gaia Online, RuneScape and many other are very popular. Players can create characters, be anyone they want. But this anonymity can lead to different forms of cyber crimes.




Laura Rich outlines following types of danger in online games:


1) Phishing attempts
Phishers usually pretend to be administration of the game and send email to players asking for password. Sometimes they show up in the game and to pretend to be game company employees.

2) Avatar identity theft
Attackers will pose as the other gamers to gain account accessibility as well as in-game belongings and then they could resell those items.

3) Spamming
Through in game messages a lot of spam is being send. But games usually have spam filtering system.

4) Viruses and worms
Virus writers develop worms that can obtain information about players in online games and then they can gain access to information like bank accounts.

5) Fraud and theft
Some people try to sell in game currency and items for real money. But there is a great possibility that they actually don't have those items.

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