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Real stealing going on in a virtual world

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With a few innocent clicks, Timmy Easter of Gilbert lost all of his Christmas money in a virtual world set in Medieval times.

It's a place where the 11-year-old boy can feel and act much older by fighting enemies and gaining points and power each time he does.

Timmy is high level player in an internet game site called RuneScape. But recently, Timmy learned this virtual world is full of some real life dangers.
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Published: 333 days 20 hours ago | News | Gaming | PC
 
 

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thisguywithhair - 333 days 19 hours ago
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thisguywithhair - 333 days 16 hours ago
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A disagree? Someone thinks he made a smart move going into a private room with a stranger and then all but handing over his sign-in info?
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Horny Melon - 333 days 11 hours ago
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2 - Why is this a big deal?
Back in the days of UO people would camp out on your door step and sneak in to your house when you walked in and then rob you blind.
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350ZRunner - 333 days 9 hours ago
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3 - Warcraft has this problem too
Warcraft has a huge problem with people getting nailed by keyloggers and losing their accounts that way. The funny thing is that a free MMO solved this problem and the most popular MMO in the world hasn't taken the simple solution needed to stop about 80% of account thefts.

Knight Online lets you type in a user name and password, but you use a mouse and an on screen number pad with numbers that appear in random order to put in a pin #. Since you never press any keys there's no way for a keylogger to grab it.
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TimmyEasterLOL - 330 days 7 hours ago
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He deserved to get hacked, buying in-game items with real money is against Runescape rules. I love how this article fails to mention that this "innocent" little 11 year old is just as much a criminal as the hacker. If he had actually taken the time to earn the items that he lost like the rest of us, he wouldn't have lost anything of any actual monetary value.
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