Brazilian gang kidnaps gamer to get password

July 23rd, 2007 by tim finin

A gang in Brazil kidnapped one of the top players of GunBound,a MMOG out of South Korea. Gizmodo reports:

“An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better. …”

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