Whether you’re one of the players striving to get rich in the open economy of EVE Online, or one of the many who would rather read stories about the MMO of spaceships and spreadsheets, you’ve heard about all kinds of scams perpetrated within it. This one was something special, however. Not because of the money involved, but because of how personal it was.
Players who die in EVE Online respawn, but their ships don’t. Unique ships become status symbols among PvP pirates like the Amamake Police, traded for hundreds of billions of in-game credits. Just as important as its guns, engines, and cloaking devices are a ship’s killmarks, a tally of how many rivals it’s shot down over its lifespan.
With over 400 killmarks, the Chremoas frigate belonging to Tikktokk Tokkzikk of the Amamake Police was something special. And that’s why it was such a tempting target for Samantha Myth, an undercover scammer who could get even pirates to trust him, who spent over a year working his way into the gang before he struck.
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This is Tales from the Hard Drive (opens in new tab): PC Gamer’s documentary series about the kinds of stories that take on life outside the games that birthed them. Each episode is focused on a real story that has become enshrined as gaming folklore, told and retold across decades on message boards and…
