In the world of cyber games, only one thing is real, cash. Thanh Nien recently discovered a ring laundering big bucks from stolen bank accounts through trading in what appears to be legal in online games. In the role of one addicted online gamer eager to spend lavishly on gadgets and weapons for fictional characters in massive multiplayer online games, two Thanh Nien journalists approached a den in Hanoi.
Walking out from a dilapidated hut near the National Economics University, we contacted Hoang, dubbed Hoang skeleton due to his bones protruding through years of playing, cheating and stealing.
Just 17-year old, barely passing 7th grade and commanding literally no English or computer repertoires, Hoang turned on his computer, opened his email in a flash of lightning, in a way able to awe the professional IT literati.
Deft of hand, he showed us hundreds of account numbers and passwords listed in his email, copied several out and then tried them on Paypal, Visa and Mastercard on the Internet.
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