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website wrote:An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.

Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.

Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.

tedtwilliger wrote:I got this story from a link a mate sent me on msn. Would any of you people do this to protect yourself.

website wrote:An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.

Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.

Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.

I sure as all hell know i would give in straight away.


direct link is here : http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sex%2C-crime ... 280966.php

Black_Mamba wrote:lol I personally think it's a load of bs, unless you can find anything even remotely related to it on a proper news website then I would take it with a pinch of salt.

"The game looks to be quite popular", that for starters has a sense of it being unknown.

I could pick lots more holes in it but I'm going to bed it's late, but common sense alone makes me think it's made up.

If you kidnap someone you'd make the risk worth it, you would kidnap someone important that is worth a lot of money, you wouldn't kidnap a geek and put a gun to his head just for the sake of a measly $8,000.

If anyone can find a link on an actual news website and if this happened then there WILL be on out there, then I'll believe it but until then it's just too far fetched lol

Black_Mamba wrote:lol I personally think it's a load of bs, unless you can find anything even remotely related to it on a proper news website then I would take it with a pinch of salt.

"The game looks to be quite popular", that for starters has a sense of it being unknown.

I could pick lots more holes in it but I'm going to bed it's late, but common sense alone makes me think it's made up.

If you kidnap someone you'd make the risk worth it, you would kidnap someone important that is worth a lot of money, you wouldn't kidnap a geek and put a gun to his head just for the sake of a measly $8,000.

If anyone can find a link on an actual news website and if this happened then there WILL be one out there, then I'll believe it but until then it's just too far fetched lol

Valkasdar wrote:DAMN IT ! Its good that SRO is free so if I decide to sell my Acc... it will be very cheap

TehUrbanNinja wrote:LOLZ! too much computer for him huh? own life risked just for stupid account haha thats dumb, although i heard people have commited suicide over their WoW accounts got hacked and stuff thats even worse IMO.oh and is something wrong with playing tetris n e way? hehe

if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.

bluey wrote:

tedtwilliger wrote:I got this story from a link a mate sent me on msn. Would any of you people do this to protect yourself.

website wrote:An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.

Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.

Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.

I sure as all hell know i would give in straight away.


direct link is here : http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sex%2C-crime ... 280966.php

I can imagine that this person must not have had much to live for if a game was worth dieing for. People, if it comes to this, realize that you need to change... fast.

+1, I would give it up in a heartbeat, pixels aren't worth a human life.