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EVE Online Player Uses Obscure Rule To Pull Off Biggest Heist In Game’s History
Using a “clean account with a character with a little history,” Flan_Hill and an unnamed partner applied for membership in the EHEXP corporation. After the account was accepted, Flan_Hill transferred enough of his shares in the corporation to the infiltrator to enable a call for a vote for a new CEO. The conspirators both voted yes, while nobody else in the corporation voted at all. This was vital, because after 72 hours the two “yes” votes carried the day. The infiltrating agent was very suddenly made CEO, which was in turn used to make Flan_Hill an Event Horizon Expeditionaries director, at which point they removed all the other corporate directors and set to emptying the coffers. They stripped 130 billion ISK from the corporate wallet, but that was only a small part of the haul: Counting all stolen assets, including multiple large ships, Flam_Hill estimated the total value of the heist at 2.23 trillion ISK, which works out to more than $22,300 in real money. ISK can’t be legally cashed out of EVE Online, but it can be used to buy Plex, an in-game currency used to upgrade accounts, purchase virtual goods, and activate other services.
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EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game’s history
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The Tinder Car Heist and the Plot For Revenge
And then the Verge tells the story of a 32-year-old technology entrepreneur and self-proclaimed multimillionaire who didn’t see the red flags when a mysterious date on Tinder asked him what kind of car he owned — and told him that when he paid for their hotel room, bring cash…
Yes, he ends up being carjacked at gunpoint in a Tinder car-theft scheme by a largely transient con artist. But then he posts to his 245,000 followers on Instagram — hiring a marketing company to manage a car-recovery campaign. He hears from fences who offer to sell back his car for $30,000 — along with an alleged police informant. There’s good luck and bad luck in this wild tale of car chases, police scanners, a neighborhood they call “Methville,” and an attempt to bring accountability to a 21-year-old catfisher and her two 18-year-old acomplices.
But the story ends with the 32-year-old self-proclaimed multimillionaire back on Tinder, looking for another date.
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