Man Kidnapped For His Online Game Account

A Brazilian video gamer with an obscenely high score in the Korean game "GunBound" was kidnapped by a local gang recently and forced to transfer his account to gang members so that they could then turn around and sell it online for roughly $8,000 USD.

Brazilian Police arrested a gang on Tuesday that kidnapped the top scorer of online game GunBound in order to force him to transfer his gaming account to them.

The player, whose identity has been kept secret, was the owner of the account with the highest score in the online game GunBound, developed and maintained by South Korea's Softnyx, and distributed in Brazil by OnGame.

According to the police, the group, the self-titled "La Firma," allegedly threatened video game players and tried to force them to transfer their accounts with their scores to the gang members.

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