A 27-year-old Australian tech worker and CEO of EBank, EVE Online's largest player-run financial institution which has thousands of depositors, embezzled about 200 billion of EVE Online's interstellar kredits, the game's virtual currency. EVE Online -- a massive multiplayer online roleplaying space game -- has more than 300,000 subscribers who pay $15 a month to play. The players earn money killing rivals (among other things) in a distant future where humans have colonized the stars in a game similar to World of Warcraft and Second Life. The CEO of EBank, who used the online name Ricdic, exchanged the embezzled virtual funds for $5,100 on the black market, according to Yahoo Tech's JaShong King.
"It was a very on the spot decision," said Ricdic, who's married and has two children. "I saw that as an avenue that could be taken, and I decided to skim off the top, you could say, to overcome real life (difficulties)."
"Basically this character was one of the people that had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money," said Ned Coker, of the Icelandic company CCP, which developed the game.
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