This isn't the first time this happened. I remember this story: http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1918246/EVE-Online-Rocked-by-700-Billon-ISK-Scam http://slas

This isn't the first time this happened. I remember this story: http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1918246/EVE-Online-Rocked-by-700-Billon-ISK-Scam http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1918246/EVE-Online-Rocked... which was funny because the guy basically just ran a 'bank' where you just gave him the ISK in game. It was a dead-simple Ponzi, pay interest out of (some of) new depositors' cash. And then when a lot of people started trying to point out that it was most likely a scam, he pretended to be offended and said, "If you're going to call me a scammer I might as well take the money." And he did. Then he proceded to buy a really fast ship and repeatedly bounty himself for lulz. This is all what I remember from reading about it at the time, I've never played, myself.