Activision has posted footage of one in every of its authorized representatives turning up on the Ohio residence of a infamous Name of Obligation cheat vendor and handing over a cease-and-desist order.
The roughly one-minute clip went up on the official Name of Obligation account on Friday, though the stop and desist was really served on twenty second August, throughout final weekend’s Fashionable Warfare 4 closed beta.
It exhibits a consultant pulling up exterior a home, assembly a person whose face is blurred all through, and handing over paperwork.
RICOCHET Anti-Cheat does not finish when your match does.
Cheat makers function all over the world. So will we. We’re taking the struggle on to cheat sellers.
Final weekend through the Closed Beta, we went to Ohio to takedown Elocarry.
That’s not an remoted case… pic.twitter.com/IP69qlGgDD
— Name of Obligation (@CallofDuty) August 28, 2026
“I simply obtained some paperwork for you,” he mentioned. “Attorneys for Activision and, uh, it is a cease-and-desist order for you.”
He tells the person to contact the lawyer’s workplace listed on the paperwork and leaves. No shouting, no chase, no drama – simply papers served on a doorstep.
The goal was Elocarry, a vendor whose cheats prolonged past Name of Obligation to different multiplayer video games together with Rust and Apex Legends. Earlier than the go to, Elocarry had reportedly been promoting a Black Ops 7 and Warzone cheat pack, marketed as secure from RICOCHET detection, with three-month subscriptions priced as much as £79.99.
In a follow-up put up, Activision shared a screenshot from Elocarry’s Discord confirming gross sales of Name of Obligation merchandise had been “briefly paused” whereas a “matter” is reviewed internally, although the remainder of the storefront was mentioned to stay lively.
Activision mentioned the Ohio go to as one small a part of a a lot greater operation, claiming it has now served greater than 80 cease-and-desist calls for, focused over 375 reseller operations, and shut down greater than 30 distributors completely.
It closed the thread with a warning that extra litigation will observe for anybody who does not comply: “construct cheats, promote cheats, we are going to discover you”.
Elsewhere within the thread, Activision used the second to speak up anti-cheat enhancements heading into Fashionable Warfare 4 itself, saying that throughout final weekend’s beta “an infection charges have been decrease, {hardware} bans have been more durable to evade and our time to motion improved”, although it did not go into additional element.
Fashionable Warfare 4’s second beta weekend is presently underway and, not like the primary, is open to everybody, with a multiplayer take a look at, a marketing campaign mission, and a Warzone battle royale drop all out there to attempt.
The primary session noticed 5 days of multiplayer motion, with excessive participant numbers on Steam and elsewhere, regardless of primarily being out there to gamers who pre-ordered the sport. Fashionable Warfare 4 launches twenty third October on PC, PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S and Change 2. The complete sport contains 12 6v6 multiplayer maps, versus the 4 within the beta.
