Unauthorized use of another player's account, identity substitution, or account-based fraud.
Definition: Unauthorized use of another player's account, identity substitution, or account-based fraud.
What OSI Layer This Cheat Affects: Layer 7 (Application)
Other Information: Unauthorized use of another player's account, identity substitution, or account-based fraud.
Irene Serrano Vázquez and Mia Consalvo
new media & society Vol. 17(6) 829–844 2015
Target: Social network game cheating including bot usage, unauthorized data access, infrastructure exploitation, creating multiple accounts
Aim: Serrano Vázquez, I., & Consalvo, M. (2015). Cheating in social network games. new media & society, 17(6), 829-844.
Recommendation: (Vasquez and Consalvo, 2013)
Richard Vogel, Falk Schmidsberger, Alexander Kühn, Kristan A. Schneider, Robert Manthey, Claudia Hösel, Matthias Baumgart, Christian Roschke, Marc Ritter, Matthias Vodel
Proc. of the International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET 2022), 20-22 June 2022, Prague-Czech Republic
Target: Identity verification fraud in sim-racing, substitution of drivers by more skilled players in virtual events
Aim: Vogel, R., Schmidsberger, F., Kühn, A., Schneider, K. A., Manthey, R., Hösel, C., Baumgart, M., Roschke, C., Ritter, M., & Vodel, M. (2022). You can't drive my car – a method to fingerprint individual driving styles in a sim-racing setting. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET 2022) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
Recommendation: (Vogel et al., 2022)