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Game Maker Says 40% of iTunes In-App Buys Are Fraud

Posted by Soulskill on from the most-of-the-remainder-are-probably-three-year-olds dept.

chicksdaddy writes "Hong Kong-based Lakoo, maker of the Empire Online game, says that 4 in 10 in-application purchases by users of the iOS version of its MMORPG are fraudulent, and made through compromised iTunes accounts. But Apple has turned a deaf ear to its requests for help to stop the bogus activity."

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  1. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about -1 sockpuppet?

  2. Re:Motivation? by MichaelKristopeit401 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    what is your motive for existing?

    cower behind your chosen pseudonym some more, feeb.

    you're completely pathetic.

  3. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You raise an interesting question: is commodore6502 actually a commodore64_love sockpuppet? The name similarity is obvious, and they're both borderline retarded, and for some bizarre reason they're both obsessed with dialup internet access. But the question is why? They don't reply to each other, they don't really have an agenda, commodore64_love didn't get modded into oblivion (eventually they stopped giving me mod points). If it is a sockpuppet, it has to be the most pointless sockpuppet of all time. Personally, I think some kind of bizarre separated at birth story is more likely. Some borderline retarded mother was driving down the road one day when her twin baby sons both jumped out of the car window, smashed skull first into the pavement over and over and over again, and then rolled into ditches on opposite sides of the road. This all happened right as a Commodore64 Fanclub meeting was getting out, and two independent couples coming from it each noticed a baby on the side of the road and took it home. Meanwhile, the mother had a similar IQ to her two sons, so by the time she got home she had long since forgotten she ever even had kids, and the two children grew up independently, never knowing the other existed.

  4. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, by gknoy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderating an informative post as a Troll, simply because that person has trolled in the past, is a sockpuppet, or any other thing not directly related to the post at hand is an abuse of moderation priveleges. Moderate as if you were reading a post by a random person, an anonymous person, or your best friend every time, for consistency, and we'll get the best discourse.