Is it illegal to retrieve the sold game account?

It is illegal to retrieve the sold game account.

Game account is a kind of virtual property, and gamers have invested a certain amount of online time and mental work; Moreover, game equipment, characters, props and so on. They are all obtained through real money purchases.

It can also be sold among gamers to realize the transaction of virtual property and cash. Therefore, there is no difference between virtual property and traditional property in essence, and theft of virtual property that meets the filing standard will also be punished as theft.

20 17, 10, Zhongmou sold his account in Netease Games to Guo at the price of 15000 yuan through the "Taoshou" trading platform. During the subsequent use, Guo recharged the account by nearly 1 10,000 yuan. On 20 17 12.6, without communicating with Guo, Zhongmou retrieved the game account through his ID number and other original registration materials, and changed the password for his own use.

After Guo discovered it, he contacted Zhong by phone, WeChat and QQ. Zhong didn't respond, and then he simply hacked Guo. In desperation, Guo called the police. Zhong was arrested and brought to justice, truthfully confessed the above-mentioned criminal facts, and reached a compensation understanding agreement with Guo.

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Case: Rudong County Procuratorate, Jiangsu Province filed a public prosecution for the case of left malicious recovery of sold game accounts. The court sentenced Zuo to six months in prison for theft and fined him.

Zuo has no fixed job. He usually lives at home and plays games. He is a senior online game player. At the beginning of 20 18, Zuo registered an online game account and bought some equipment, characters and props from others through an official platform. After playing for several months, Zuo felt tired and wanted to try another game, so he posted a post selling game accounts in Baidu Post Bar.

After seeing the post, the victim Song got in touch with Zuo. The two reached an agreement and completed the transaction at a price of 4,300 yuan, but did not complete the transfer through the formal platform. Song did not change the registered ID card of the game account, but only changed the login password, bound mobile phone and email address of the game account.

Since then, Song once again spent four or five thousand yuan to buy game equipment, and also spent more than 1000 yuan to invite people to practice. 20 18 1 1 month, Song suddenly received a short message from the game official to unbind the game account. Song first thought of Zuo, who sold the game account, and wanted to get in touch with Zuo for the first time, only to find that his WeChat, QQ and mobile phone had been blacked out by the other party. In desperation, Song can only choose to call the police.

It turned out that after playing other games for several months, Zuo wanted to return to this online game, but he didn't want to re-register the game account and upgrade slowly, and he didn't have the money to buy a high-level game account. Occasionally,

Zuo found that he could retrieve the game account through the registered ID card by browsing the game official website and Baidu search, so Zuo logged into the game official website and maliciously retrieved the game account through the complaint account. After identification, the game account was worth more than 6,000 yuan at the time of the incident, and the court made the above judgment.

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