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By Mike Snider USA Today Mon., March 4, 2019 Mar. 4—Inside the super-popular online game Fortnite players must evade gunfire and rocket launcher attacks to be among the last ones standing in the multiplayer free-for-all. But even bigger dangers involving the game await players in the real world. Online profiteers hawking enhanced abilities for players' Fortnite characters in exchange for their account login information could take over the account or, worse, steal credit card information in the account for fraud. Other internet peddlers pitch discounted or free allotments of the game's virtual currency, V-bucks, used to pay for new costumes and dance animations for in-game characters. What seems like a bargain could, in reality, be a transaction that assists cyber-criminals launder money spent acquiring stolen data on the Dark Web. Players do not have to pay to jump into the battle royale mode of Fortnite an aspect of the online game that has helped it become a … [Read more...] about How to avoid Fortnite V-bucks scams and cyber-criminal schemes