TIL that in Eve Online a player set up an in-game bank that operated legitimately for several months. The bank's founder then stole nearly 790 billion units of in-game currency, nearly $170,000 in real world dollars. This was all perfectly legal.

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7605/



Submitted February 21, 2015 at 11:01AM by ShadowKnightofRegret http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wmpgm/til_that_in_eve_online_a_player_set_up_an_ingame/