Activision served a Call of Duty cheat seller at his front door — and filmed it
By TourneyTime ·
The short version
Activision sent a representative to a house in Ohio during the Modern Warfare 4 closed beta to hand a cease-and-desist notice to the operator of the cheat service Elocarry, then published the footage on the official Call of Duty X account on 28 August (Call of Duty on X).
That is the load-bearing fact, and Activision framed it as a warning to every other seller:
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…
What the footage shows
The clip is presented as an excerpt of a genuine recording made while serving legal papers. It is timestamped 9:50 AM on 22 August, and shows the representative driving to the address and walking to the front door. A man with a blurred face answers, and the representative explains the documents are from “attorneys for Activision” before telling him it is a cease-and-desist order and pointing him at the attorney’s office listed on the paperwork (Dexerto).
| Detail | What is confirmed |
|---|---|
| Target | Elocarry, a multi-game cheat service |
| Location | An Ohio residence |
| Visit | 22 August 2026, footage timestamped 9:50 AM |
| Published | 28 August 2026, official Call of Duty X account |
| Action | Civil cease-and-desist from Activision’s attorneys |
| Arrest or charges | None described by Activision or the outlets covering it |
This was not an arrest
Worth stating plainly, because some coverage has run with body-cam and arrest framing: what Activision published is a civil legal notice being delivered, not a criminal bust. Nobody is shown being detained, and Activision has not claimed police involvement. The publisher’s own line is about litigation — it says it is prepared to take cheat developers and sellers to court to protect fair play (Kotaku).
The theatre is the point. Filming a doorstep delivery and posting it mid-beta does more deterrence work than another quiet ban wave ever could.
The enforcement numbers
Activision paired the video with a tally of what its anti-cheat legal campaign has done so far:
| Claim | Figure |
|---|---|
| Cease-and-desist demands served | More than 80 |
| Reseller operations disrupted | More than 375 |
| Vendors shut down | More than 30 |
Those are Activision’s own numbers (Kotaku) and nobody outside the publisher can audit them, so treat them as a direction of travel rather than a scoreboard. They do line up with earlier claims: in March 2025 Team RICOCHET said its work had put more than 20 cheat makers and dozens of resellers out of business since Black Ops 6 launched, and in 2024 EngineOwning was ordered to pay Activision more than $14 million after a lawsuit (Dexerto).
What happened to Elocarry
Elocarry has not vanished. Its Discord posted that Call of Duty cheat availability was paused while the creator reviewed a matter internally, and its website is still trading — just not in Call of Duty. Call of Duty and Warzone have been dropped from the games it lists, while Rust, Apex Legends, Battlefield 6 and Marvel Rivals remain.
Before the visit, the service was advertising a Black Ops 7 and Warzone package with an aimbot, ESP, triggerbot and controller support, marketed as “RICOCHET-safe”, streamproof and using “kernel-grade evasion”, with subscriptions running up to £79.99 for three months.
That pricing matters more than the feature list. Cheat selling is a subscription business, and a subscription business is a business address, a payment processor and a paper trail — which is exactly what a legal team can pull on.
What it means for your lobbies
Be realistic. One vendor pulling its Call of Duty product does not clean up matchmaking. What supply-side enforcement does is slower and more structural than banning accounts:
- It raises the cost of selling. A cease-and-desist turns an anonymous side income into a legal exposure with your home address attached.
- It hits the resellers hardest. Most cheat distribution runs through resellers with no appetite for a lawsuit, which is where the 375 figure is doing its work.
- It does nothing about the cheats already installed. Existing subscribers keep whatever they have until a detection pass catches them.
The beta timing is not an accident either. A new anti-cheat build during an open test is when providers scramble hardest to prove their product still works, and it is when the publisher most wants that claim to look risky.
What to watch next
Activision explicitly said this was “not an isolated case”. The useful signal between now and Modern Warfare 4’s launch is whether more of these get published, and whether any of them escalates from a cease-and-desist to a filed lawsuit — the EngineOwning judgment is the template for what that ends up looking like.
The second signal is quieter: whether cheat services start dropping Call of Duty from their catalogues pre-emptively, the way Elocarry did after one visit.
Sources we checked
- The official Call of Duty X post of 28 August 2026 for the primary confirmation, the footage and Activision’s own wording.
- Dexerto’s 28 August report for the timestamp, the Ohio location, the on-camera exchange, Elocarry’s advertised package and pricing, and the EngineOwning and Team RICOCHET background.
- Kotaku’s 28 August report for Activision’s enforcement figures, the litigation quote and Elocarry’s Discord statement.
- PC Gamer and GamesRadar’s 28 August coverage of the same footage as further corroboration that the video and its framing came from Activision.
