Fortnite. The most popular game on the planet brings huge amounts to the accounts of Epic Games every year, but it seems that not only the creative company takes full advantage of what its online platform has to offer. More precisely, it seems that the Fortnite game is used for money laundering by members of organized crime groups, and since the press is discussing this, it is quite clear that the amounts are large.
Fortnite. Stolen credit cards are used by criminals to buy V-Bucks, the virtual in-game currency created by Epic Games, and then these V-Bucks are sold in the real world at substantial discounts. In this way, criminals make money from Fortnite after stealing it from other ordinary people, a computer security company managed to track down several people who regularly make money in this way.
Fortnite is used to launder money stolen by criminals
Fortnite. Criminals sell the virtual currency V-Bucks on the dark web to anyone who is interested in buying them, preferring to receive bitcoins, or other cryptocurrencies, instead of money transfers. No one knows yet how much money is "laundered" through the Fortnite game, but with 3 billion dollars in revenue in one year from V-Bucks, and not only that, it is quite clear that there are huge amounts at stake for criminals and producers.
Fortnite. Considering that Epic Games has not implemented good enough security measures so that people do not have the money stolen by criminals, the problem will not be solved too soon for those affected. It is possible that the police will intervene to force the creators of Fortnite to stop accepting this money laundering in their game, but everything depends on the number of complaints that will be registered against Epic Games because of these crimes.