// KOTAKU — GAMING
Activision Just Ambushed A Notorious Call Of Duty Cheat Maker With Legal Papers At His House And Filmed The Whole Thing
ActivisionCall of DutyCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 4Cheaters
This morning, Activision shared yet another update in its ongoing saga to deal with rampant cheating in Call of Duty multiplayer, and this one’s a doozy: the publisher seems to have sent a legal representative to the home of notorious cheat maker Elocarry to serve him with a cease-and-desist takedown order, and filmed the entire interaction.
RICOCHET Anti-Cheat doesn't end when your match does.
Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we. We’re taking the fight directly to cheat sellers.
Last weekend during the Closed Beta, we went to Ohio to takedown Elocarry.
That’s not an isolated case… pic.twitter.com/IP69qlGgDD
In a post on X, the official Call of Duty account shared a one-minute video of a representative arriving at Elocarry’s house in Ohio with the cease and desist paperwork. The actual video itself isn’t all that spicy—the rep explains what they’re there for and hands over the legal threat, Elocarry takes it, and the rep leaves.
But the tameness of the video itself isn’t really the point. Activision wants you to know that its ongoing work to stop Call of Duty cheating is having a real impact, and also that it’s willing to target you publicly in an IRL stunt that might go viral online. The publisher posted a screenshot from Elocarry’s Discord announcing that cheat availability for Call of Duty (and something else?) has been paused while the creator “reviews a matter internally.” It’s also sharing stats from the recent Modern Warfare 4 early access beta weekend demonstrating improvements to its own anti-cheating endeavors, including more effective bans and improved speed:
Last weekend’s Modern Warfare 4 Early Access Beta was a great start. Across millions of matches played, infection rates were lower, hardware bans were harder to evade and our time to action improved.
We also deployed new detections throughout the weekend to make… pic.twitter.com/uF2HbWgVzi