The law enforcement authorities revealed that serious cyber criminals often start out with minor thefts in such video games as World of Warcraft. They also claimed that finding out how people end up on a particular criminal path might help with early intervention.


The police revealed that cyber criminals are capable of doing lots of damage, but not in a traditional criminal way, pointing out that the crimes may begin with a small scale. It turns out that youngsters don’t consider some sorts of criminality serious: for example, stealing gold off each other in online games or cheating. No one expects to be pursued for stealing a sword off the other player in WoW.

World of Warcraft is a popular online role-playing game that features thousands of players from all over the globe communicating with each other in a virtual space. The police say that the motivations of Internet users who end up committing theft in role-play games are not money but the challenge or desire to experiment. Most often,people involved don’t realize what they are doing may be against the law. The police believe that serious cyber crime has the same roots: the challenge or desire to experiment, starting with play, stealing swords and gold in online games.