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Most famous heists/scam in Eve?

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I remember a few years ago reading an article written by, possibly, the first person to ever pull a huge investment scam in eve. It involved a high level of detail, including real-life communication, to build up trust with a potential investor, before the scammer pulled the rug and walked away with a couple of bil (which at the time was a massive amount of isk).

Earlier this year we saw the Titans4u investment scheme fall apart when the founder took over 800bil in another long term scam that had taken years to plan and execute.

Scams and heists are of course an integral part of eve, but which others are the really BIG ones?

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serker [ Editor ]

I've made some search on my favorite Eve-Tribune and that's what I got:
http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=1_5&page=4 - Morbor(15 bil, first big scammer), Sky Vision Enterprises and some info about Guiding Hand Social Club.
http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=3_24&page=1 - Guiding Hand Social Club’s attack on the Ubiqua Seraph corporation(20bil stolen and 10 bil destroyed, brutally), Currin Trading scam(30 bil stolen), and biggest scam ever(well, second place, considering Titans4U) - Eve Intergalactic Bank - 671 billion isk.
http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=1_27&page=7 - Safrax stealing approximately 25bil from SOLST corporation. Not too much, but good lesson about stupidity.
http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=3_42&page=4 - Four-year member Thelung seizes a bit under 200bil from his corp. Money may be attractive.

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quincy

Not sure if this falls directly into a scam or heist, but the Goon's flipping an internal BoB director probably rates the highest. It probably had the biggest impact on the game up until that point and possibly an all time high single event. It certainly fits the bill for most famous.

The Mittani describes some of it here:

https://www.tentonhammer.com/node/64347

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btek
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Well, Goons did steal their alliance name, so that counts!

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ecaf ersa [ Editor ]

Don't forget the E-Bank scandal in which Ricdic, the founder member, made off with about 200 billion isk which he sold for real money resulting in his account being banned. Note the ban was due to selling the isk not stealing it.

The story made it into mainstream news outlets including the BBC

It was understood that Ricdic, who lives in Australia, used the real money to help support his disabled child.

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btek [ Editor ]

When Goonswarm forgot to pay their sovereignty bills and lost sov in Delve, their CEO Karttoon got jack of all the criticism and expelled all corps, made off with the corp wallet, and self-destructed a bunch of caps for the insurance. Not sure how much that was worth, but has to be 200b+.

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