They ask where I get the money for everything. I buy something from Amazon for my room, stuff like that," he says. "I spend the money on my friends and stuff. As soon as we connected, a distinct, pre-pubescent voice crackled out of my phone. And yet, the presence beyond the screen did agree to jump on a voice call to confirm his claim. One of the first things you learn as a games journalist is to not take a seedy Discord channel at face value. Now I knew I was being trolled - 13-year olds aren't complicit in this degree of professional fraud. To be confronted with a multifaceted racketeering affair - one that borders on organized crime - forced me to reconsider my preconceptions. I had never played Roblox before writing this report, and I traditionally understood the game to be a diversion for elementary-aged kids training wheels before they graduated to Minecraft or Call of Duty. They say they generates about €2,000 a week, but considers his beaming career a "hobby," rather than a full-time job. The hacker I'm speaking to shows me a few more of his scores a bounty of high-value Roblox cosmetics that could fetch a pretty penny, as well as a Visa credit card to boot. ("Did you just try scam me keeps saying giving item to u," writes the victim. The author breaks into a mark's Roblox profile and trolls them in the DMs. "Beaming 25k, ezzz," reads the title of one unlisted YouTube video from November. Sometimes, a user posts a clip that documents the entirety of their operation. It's filled to the brim with screenshots like the one I just saw an ocean of exposed authentication details. There is a forum titled, "Flex Your Beams," the term "beam" being shorthand for "scam" in Roblox parlance.
A marketplace zooms by in one of the sub-channels where swindlers offload troves of plundered goods Roblox accounts and items, sure, but also instructions on how to steal those assets in the first place.
The panels of these Discord servers bloom with illicit content - almost like the Anarchist's Cookbook for Roblox hoodlums. "They get logged off, and I change everything."Ĭould it really be that simple? I didn't know what to believe. I run it, crack their pin, and it auto-unverifies their email," says the scammer, when I ask how they prevent their victims from reclaiming their Roblox identity. "I scripted something called a pin cracker. There were 467,985 Robux in the target's wallet at the time of the hack, equivalent to about $5,850. A screenshot materializes in the chat - it contains the uncensored username, password, and IP address of a Roblox account that was allegedly captured in his snare. In the depths of the Roblox criminal Discord network, a scammer from across the void shows me his best score.
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