Activision has taken its fight against Call of Duty cheating beyond in-game bans and anti-cheat software by personally serving a cease-and-desist notice to a cheat seller known as Elocarry. The publisher filmed the encounter and posted the footage publicly, using the incident to send a warning to others involved in developing and selling cheats.
The official Call of Duty account shared the video on X, explaining that the action took place in Ohio during the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Closed Beta. Activision said RICOCHET Anti-Cheat is now targeting not only players who use cheats but also the people and businesses that profit from creating and distributing them.
“Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we,”
the company wrote.
“We’re taking the fight directly to cheat sellers.”
Activision’s Warning to Call of Duty Cheat Sellers
The video shows an Activision representative approaching Elocarry’s home and handing over legal paperwork. The interaction itself was brief, but Activision’s decision to record and release it was clearly intended to make the warning public.
In a follow-up post, Activision revealed the wider scale of its legal campaign. According to the company, it has disrupted more than 375 cheat reseller operations, served more than 80 cease-and-desist demands, and shut down more than 30 vendors.
“BUILD CHEATS. SELL CHEATS. WE WILL FIND YOU,”
Activision warned, adding that litigation could follow when necessary. The publisher said it was prepared to take cheating developers and sellers to court to protect fair play.
The action against Elocarry also appears to have had an immediate effect. A screenshot shared by the Call of Duty account showed a message stating that sales of Call of Duty cheats had been “temporarily paused” while the matter was reviewed internally.
Activision also used the campaign to highlight its anti-cheat efforts during the Modern Warfare 4 beta. The company said that across millions of matches, cheating infection rates were lower, hardware bans were harder to evade, and its response time had improved.
The latest move shows that Activision is attempting to attack the cheat ecosystem at multiple levels. RICOCHET continues to identify and remove cheaters inside the game, while legal action is increasingly being used against the people responsible for creating and selling the software.
Activision filmed the entire legal exchange, turning what could have been a private cease-and-desist delivery into one of the publisher’s most public anti-cheat warnings yet.
