Wang owned luxury cars worth around $3 million-including a Ferrari and a Lamborghini-and a stash of Bitcoin worth around $4 million, despite the fact that his day job only paid him $462 a month, according to the police. "We were the best cheat for the most popular game"Īt the beginning of April, the police accused Catfish's two salespeople, whom it identified only by the names He and Wang, of being part of the " world's largest" video game cheating ring, which authorities refer to as "Chicken Drumstick." The organization raked in $77 million from selling cheats, according to the cops. "Although I never disclosed personal info to I actually always thought they were kind of invincible and never thought that they could get arrested."
"I know the cops were on to my organization for a long time," Catfish told Motherboard. The arrests of two of his closest collaborators hit much closer to home, and forced him to shut down the whole organization and lay low. But those were just resellers, according to Catfish. Last year, authorities had already arrested 10 other people associated with the cheating organization. "I've gotten used to being on the Chinese news," Catfish said. The arrests were the last salvo in a nearly year-long investigation started in March 2020, when Tencent reported Catfish's website to the authorities, according to the Kunshan Police. "Then I just drove to a place a few miles away and dropped them off there."Īs it turns out, IIIIIIIII and the other salesperson had been arrested-on January 20 and January 12, respectively-by Chinese police working with Tencent, the giant Chinese technology company and PUBG Mobile's publisher. "I was so panicked that I also hammered every single visible chip in ," he said.
At first, Catfish was confused, because his colleagues usually gave him advance notice if they were not going to be available to work, but "after I connected the dots I absolutely panicked," he said.Ĭatfish said he then wiped the servers he used to maintain and run his cheats, and used "a good old hammer" to destroy all his hard disks "that could possibly contain cheat-related stuff."
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