Summary
It seemsEpic Gamesis taking no prisoners when it comes to cheaters and fraudsters. Last month,Fortnitenamed, shamed, and sued Morgan “RepulseGod” Bamfordfor account sharing during the 2023 Fortnite Championship Series. He was also made to apologise publicly and return his winnings, which were then donated to charity.
While this portrayed Epic’s hard line against cheating, the company alsodecided to give Fortnite cheaters and hackers a second chance. Fortnite’s new anti-cheat update stated “While maintaining game integrity is our top priority, we also believe in allowing second chances for players who made a bad decision and have learned from it.” However, Epic has once again decided to take the legal route, this time against a scammer.
Why Did You Redeem The V-Bucks!?
As reported byPC Gamer, Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Isaac Strock, who has allegedly stolen hundreds of Fortnite accounts and sold them on Telegram for “thousands of dollars in profits.” According to the lawsuit documents, Strock would scam Fortnite players in a number of ways and even attempt to trick Epic’s support team into giving him access to other players' accounts.
“Strock takes control of other players' Epic Games accounts through fraud,” says the court filing. “Strock contacts Epic’s player support team and pretends to be the account holder of the account he is trying to steal … Epic has caught Strock attempting to deceive its player support team at least four times.”
The filing continued to reveal that Strock would allegedly try and sell these accounts – which were high-level, with a lot of skins unlocked. For instance, one of the accounts which he sold had unlocked 146 skins and even had some V-Bucks to its name. It was sold for $425 worth of Bitcoin.
Strock even had a website to advertise his ‘services’, where he boasted of selling 482 Fortnite-linked items and even featured a guide for how to do so. Considering Epic Games made a specialanti-cheat update announcement, it’s going to start taking these things more seriously.
