Activision has posted footage of one of its legal representatives turning up at the Ohio home of a notorious Call of Duty cheat seller and handing over a cease-and-desist order.<\/p>\n
The roughly one-minute clip went up on the official Call of Duty account<\/a> on Friday, although the cease and desist was actually served on 22nd August, during last weekend’s Modern Warfare 4 closed beta.<\/p>\n It shows a representative pulling up outside a house, meeting a man whose face is blurred throughout, and handing over paperwork.<\/p>\n RICOCHET Anti-Cheat doesn’t end when your match does.<\/p>\n Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we. We\u2019re taking the fight directly to cheat sellers.<\/p>\n Last weekend during the Closed Beta, we went to Ohio to takedown Elocarry.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not an isolated case… pic.twitter.com\/IP69qlGgDD<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) August 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n Manage cookie settings<\/p>\n “I just got some paperwork for you,” he said. “Attorneys for Activision and, uh, it’s a cease-and-desist order for you.”<\/p>\n He tells the man to contact the attorney’s office listed on the documents and leaves. No shouting, no chase, no drama \u2013 just papers served on a doorstep.<\/p>\n The target was Elocarry, a seller whose cheats extended beyond Call of Duty to other multiplayer games including Rust and Apex Legends<\/a>. Before the visit, Elocarry had reportedly been selling a Black Ops 7<\/a> and Warzone cheat pack, advertised as safe from RICOCHET detection, with three-month subscriptions priced up to \u00a379.99.<\/p>\n In a follow-up post<\/a>, Activision shared a screenshot from Elocarry’s Discord confirming sales of Call of Duty products had been “temporarily paused” while a “matter” is reviewed internally, though the rest of the storefront was said to remain active.<\/p>\n Activision said the Ohio visit as one small part of a much bigger operation, claiming it has now served more than 80 cease-and-desist demands<\/a>, targeted over 375 reseller operations, and shut down more than 30 vendors entirely.<\/p>\n It closed the thread with a warning that more litigation will follow for anyone who doesn’t comply: “build cheats, sell cheats, we will find you”.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the thread, Activision used the moment to talk up anti-cheat improvements heading into Modern Warfare 4 itself, saying that across last weekend’s beta “infection rates were lower, hardware bans were harder to evade and our time to action improved”, though it didn’t go into further detail.<\/p>\n Modern Warfare 4’s second beta weekend is currently underway and, unlike the first, is open to everyone, with a multiplayer test, a campaign mission, and a Warzone battle royale drop all available to try.<\/p>\n The first session saw five days of multiplayer action<\/a>, with high player numbers on Steam<\/a> and elsewhere, despite mainly being available to players who pre-ordered the game. Modern Warfare 4 launches 23rd October on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X\/S and Switch 2<\/a>. The full game includes 12 6v6 multiplayer maps, as opposed to the four in the beta.<\/p>\n