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Former Old School Runescape dev sentenced for stealing from players to cash in over $400,000 in "black market" payouts

A former Old School Runescape developer who was fired by Jagex in 2018 after it came to light that he was stealing in-game gold and items from OSRS players has now been handed a three-year suspended sentence. Cambridgeshire Police report that Andrew Lakeman, who was previously known as Jed Sanderson and referred to amo...

A former Old School Runescape developer who was fired by Jagex in 2018 after it came to light that he was stealing in-game gold and items from OSRS players has now been handed a three-year suspended sentence. Cambridgeshire Police report that Andrew Lakeman, who was previously known as Jed Sanderson and referred to among the [...]

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