Eve Online

[Spooky]

A guy jokes about "blowing his head off" in chat on EVE and gets a visit from the RCMP to see if he's OK.

Hey guys, so I am writing to you right now because the police literally just woke me up (4:30 am here) asking if I play an online game called EVE and that CCP games actually contacted INTERPOL (I live in Canada- that's x-country police work right there) who then contacted the RCMP who just dispatched two officers to my house because I said I "was going to blow my Chucking brains out" in Local Chat at Jita because of a loss earlier. I imagine the follow up text (body disposal, cleanup) that another player and I were openly joking about made itself to the report however the officers were kind enough to only mention the fact I had said I want to end my own life in an online video game. The officers then asked me if I have a history of self-harm, and if I had any firearms in the house (no, to both) Lesson learned here? Watch what you Chucking say in an online game! Even when you say something to somebody specifically, someone may take it out of context and get Chucking INTERPOL involved. What kind of international suicide watch list did I unintentionally end up on?
I was not expecting this to happen especially considering I haven't played EVE in about 6 hours.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/2080l1/ccp_gave_my_info_to_interpol_because_they_thought/

[Spooky]

A nice story from an Army vet with PTSD and TBI.


This is how Eve Online and it's players has helped me.

https://bestofuscommunity.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/this-is-how-eve-online-and-its-players-has-helped-me/

[Phyll33]

A guy jokes about "blowing his head off" in chat on EVE and gets a visit from the RCMP to see if he's OK.

Hey guys, so I am writing to you right now because the police literally just woke me up (4:30 am here) asking if I play an online game called EVE and that CCP games actually contacted INTERPOL (I live in Canada- that's x-country police work right there) who then contacted the RCMP who just dispatched two officers to my house because I said I "was going to blow my Chucking brains out" in Local Chat at Jita because of a loss earlier. I imagine the follow up text (body disposal, cleanup) that another player and I were openly joking about made itself to the report however the officers were kind enough to only mention the fact I had said I want to end my own life in an online video game. The officers then asked me if I have a history of self-harm, and if I had any firearms in the house (no, to both) Lesson learned here? Watch what you Chucking say in an online game! Even when you say something to somebody specifically, someone may take it out of context and get Chucking INTERPOL involved. What kind of international suicide watch list did I unintentionally end up on?
I was not expecting this to happen especially considering I haven't played EVE in about 6 hours.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/2080l1/ccp_gave_my_info_to_interpol_because_they_thought/

I have to laugh at the last sentence. "I was not expecting this to happen especially considering I haven't played EVE in about 6 hours."  HUH!!  He considers 6 hours a long time?!
He is more sick than he is telling and obviously video games are on the radar of the spy guys big time.

[Eric]

Interesting, for sure.

[Spooky]

In Eve I have a trading character. I have a bunch of buy and sell orders up and I check them every day to see if I need to adjust my prices up or down. I came across this sell order in my game wallet. The Missile Guidance Enhancers were up for sale at 22,000.



I happen to have the lowest price so when someone makes a mistake and places a buy order for higher than the lowest sell order I will get the sale. Worked out pretty good for me.



The buyer wasn't happy he made the mistake and emailed one word to me.



Anyway, worked out for me. 

[Eric]

Clearly he was calling himself that for making such a mistake.

[Spooky]

Clearly he was calling himself that for making such a mistake.

He was. 

[Spooky]

 

http://evenews24.com/2015/08/28/first-day-of-youtube-gaming-markeedragon-gets-swatted/

An entrepreneur in the video game industry, MarkeeDragon, has been involved in gaming as a business since 1997, when he played Ultima: Online. Before 'RMT" (Real Money Trading) was a coined phrase, MarkeeDragon discovered a loophole in Ultima's game-time codes. Selling in-game currency and items for real money was not frowned upon back in the days of Ultima: Online, and MarkeeDragon realized he could trade Ultima: Online game-time codes for gold, and then resell the gold for a profit.

MarkeeDragon found himself victim of 'Swatting', where a person calls the Police claiming that the streamer is holding someone hostage, or has killed someone, causing a SWAT team to storm the stream.  The Wikipedia definition of swatting is:

Swatting is the act of tricking emergency services into deploying an Emergency Response Team based on the false report of an ongoing critical situation
During his stream, he heard shouting in the house, he went on to say

My house is not a shouting house, the only time anyone shouts in my house is to tell a cat to get off the counter. So I went out into the hallway to see what was happening, and as I left the room, there were officers pointing guns at me. They handcuffed me, and had me kneel outside, and they cleared the whole house. My son who was asleep, he's 22, but they handcuffed him too. Fortunately they didn't handcuff my younger children, but I spent 15 -20 minutes in handcuffs, while they figured out what was happening.  One of the officers was friends with my son, and as I went on to explain what swatting was, he agreed with me. The older officers had not heard of 'swatting'.

It all worked out ok, but someone had called the local police saying that I had killed my  wife, was holding my children hostage, and had a pipe-bomb ready to kill myself. And these weren't just handguns they were using, they were assault rifles. And things can go wrong very quickly. Fortunately, I have experience with law enforcement, and knew exactly what to do. So now the local authorities now that I stream, and troll calls may happen, and to not take them seriously. I had never considered myself being swatted before, and of course, it happens today when I am streaming to a wider audience.

http://www.twitch.tv/markeedragon/v/13137147

In the video featured, you can hear Thor, my Icelandic friend, talking about how I received a phone call 15 minutes before the police arrived at my house, and you can hear Thor say that whoever called me was probably the person responsible, making sure they had the right number. But of course, the media heard of it, and they arrived too. It was an uncomfortable evening, but it takes a lot to shake me. At least the local authorities are now aware of the issue, and hopefully it wont happen again.

[Eric]

Wow.  Dangerous and and resources deployed to one area are resources that can't be deployed elsewhere. 

[Spooky]

I guess the person who called in the Swat had called MarkeeDragon before to confirm his phone number. I hope they did it from their home or cell phone and get to meet the police face to face.