Activision Posts Body-Cam Footage of Cheat Seller Being Served Cease-and-Desist at His Ohio Home

Activision has published roughly a minute of body-cam-style footage showing a legal representative hand-delivering a cease-and-desist order to a Call of Duty cheat seller at his Ohio home. The video appeared on the official Call of Duty X (formerly Twitter) account on 28 August, framed by the publisher with the statement: "We're taking the fight directly to cheat sellers" (GamesRadar).

The order was served on 22 August, during the closed beta weekend for Modern Warfare 4 — the next mainline Call of Duty title, scheduled to launch on 23 October across PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2. In the footage, the Activision representative pulls up outside the house, meets a man whose face is blurred throughout, and hands over paperwork, telling him to contact the attorney's office listed on the documents (Eurogamer).

The target was Elocarry, a cheat seller whose products extended beyond Call of Duty to other multiplayer games including Rust and Apex Legends. Before the visit, Elocarry was reportedly selling a cheat pack for Black Ops 7 and Warzone — the free-to-play Call of Duty battle-royale component — advertised as safe from RICOCHET, Activision's anti-cheat system. Three-month subscriptions for that pack were priced up to £79.99.

A follow-up post from Activision shared a screenshot from Elocarry's Discord server confirming that sales of Call of Duty products had been "temporarily paused" while a "matter" was reviewed internally. The rest of Elocarry's storefront, covering other games, remained active.

The publisher also laid out the broader scale of its enforcement efforts. Activision said it has served more than 80 cease-and-desist demands, targeted over 375 reseller operations, and shut down more than 30 cheat vendors entirely. The warning to others was blunt: "Build cheats, sell cheats, we will find you."

For players, cheats in competitive multiplayer games are a persistent frustration — software that gives users automated aiming, wall-piercing vision, or other advantages that undermine fair play. Publishers invest heavily in anti-cheat systems like RICOCHET, which runs inside the game to detect and ban unauthorised modifications, but cheat developers continually update their tools to evade detection. The cat-and-mouse cycle is why publishers like Activision are increasingly pursuing cheat sellers through legal channels rather than relying on in-game enforcement alone.

The body-cam footage, unusual for a game publisher, puts a public face on a strategy that has previously played out through court filings and takedown notices. Whether it deters other sellers remains an open question. Activision has said more litigation will follow for anyone who does not comply.