Despite what we are told as children, cheaters do sometimes prosper—fairly often, in fact. Every now and then, though, cheaters push their luck a little too far and their bad deeds come around to bite them in the ass. Such is the case of Sebastian Araujo, who won more than $6,800 in Fortnite tournaments after evading a ban, and now owes Epic $175,000 as a result.
The ruling, provided to PC Gamer by Epic, says Araujo was banned from Fortnite on June 6, 2024, after he was busted using a direct memory access device in a Fortnite tournament in order to get around anti-cheat measures. Instead of mending his ways and returning to the light, however, Araujo created at least three "fake accounts" between June and October 2024, and used a hardware spoofer in order to keep playing.
