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GeorgeSkywalker

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I thought it would be a good idea to keep a record of Real Life Police contacts (e.g Name/Department, Email Address - professional email address please). Contacts who deal with online scams indeed Entropia Universe police specialists. The idea being with time we'll have a record of who to contact and they would be familiar with this game and hence provide more useful results for us. Plus we wouldn't need to explain to a real life police officer what EU is etc etc and also avoid nothing coming of our reports because your case never got to the right police officer/department...


So if you've had dealings with a police officer in real life about EU and it's ok with them to share their info here - you may want to ask them first, then please do share.


Hopefully with time we'll have a contact for each country.
 
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I know a bunch of police officers since I used to be one for a couple of years (National Service in Singapore) about 10 years back.

But don't know of anyone who is dealing with cybercrime.

Maybe a better question is are there police officers playing here and how will they explain EU to another officer to make them understand. Knowing the lingo to use may be helpful when there are no specific police officers we may know of.
 
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) handles cybercrime on a large scale (vital to national interests, etc). However, there is a sub-organization that fits the bill:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

There may be individual state-run organizations, probably originating from each state police agency. Might want to contact your state's police agency first.

Here's to hoping you never need it :beerchug:
 
maybe the better way is do not trust everyone. I really don't like to have Police in or around the game.We have a shitload of police in our country. and they only use a lot cash. Noting will be better. take care if you trade with ppl is the best way! no one can be a thief in this game, unless you give them a chances for this!
 
Rayne Jade said:
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) handles cybercrime on a large scale (vital to national interests, etc). However, there is a sub-organization that fits the bill:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

There may be individual state-run organizations, probably originating from each state police agency. Might want to contact your state's police agency first.

Here's to hoping you never need it :beerchug:
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I've spoken with some FBI cyber crime agents and lets just say Entropia is not even on their radar.

I think it would be a great idea to have some resources available for people if they find themselves subject to fraud and scams.
 
If you report anything to the police will they probably laugh but the tax office will never do that.:D

Because everything here has officially a TT-value så the crime wount be so big even if you paid 200000 ped for it because the TT-value is 500 ped the game is rather a paradise for tax payer.
 
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I was once involved in kicking the arse of an internet fraudster and his company along with a few others. It took forever to get any action from anyone, and TONS of solid proof of what was scammed (millions in this case), who from (with statements and proof), and the actual location of the person scamming.

We got the bastards, but mainly because they moved from the USA to New Zealand to stay away from the authorities ...but the NZ police were awesome as were the serious fraud office there...it even got mentioned in the NZ parliament. They took it seriously, even without the resources at first for online fraud.

The route in EU is simpler, it's all down to MA. You need details of whoever is out of order legally and only MA can supply those. This almost certainly makes it 2 or 3 countries involved...the scammer, Sweden for MA, and possibly the victims country. It gets messy. IF one link won't play the game, the game isn't likely to be won.

I really can't see MA kicking up a fuss with local cops over a serious scam inside their universe...or being keen to pass on details...they often say they have no logs for ingame transactions anyway don't they ?

Our battle was over thousands of people conned out of millions...and some in serious hardship due to it, or even dead. A few grand wouldn't have done it for sure. Real money against explaining the markup of a Mod Fap..I'd not fancy doing that at all. Money online is hard enough if it's ecurrency like egold.

Gathering RL information yourself about someone you are trading seriously expensive ingame items would give you some much better chance if things went wrong...cut out the anonymity factor and any need to involve MA in tracing an avatars country. With a serious item worth thousands of RL dollars I'd consider a personal visit even.

It's a good idea, but I imagine the Swedish authorities concerned with online fraud and/or police details would be most important. From experience, some countries cops don't give a toss...like the UK ones in our case didn't until the good old NZers made them.

I hope no-one ever needs any of this.

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After the dealings I've had with UK police I think I'd be better off asking Batman for help.

Hurrikane
 
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