Cheating in Monopoly City Streets

If there is a way to cheat in a game, people will generally try to do it. There has been cases of cheating in most of the most popular MMO’s and Monopoly City Streets is no different. However, since MCS is currently free, I guess it makes it so much easier and rampant.

In a very bizarre oversight, it seems as though the developers decided not to verify peoples accounts (you don’t even need an email address to sign up).

This has led to thousands of people signing up for multiple accounts – each one loaded with M3,000,000. The process of cheating in Monopoly City Streets is relatively simple.

1. Sign up for your ‘master’ account and buy multiple cheap streets that are around the M200,000 mark.
2. Sign up for a new account and purchase one of the streets off your master account for M3,000,000 (you will probably want to have two different browsers open for this like Firefox and IE8)
3. Rinse and repeat as many times as you want.

Pretty soon you can rack up millions in your master account and world domination is suddenly a whole lot easier.

I seriously hope that Hasbro and the developers get this fixed soon – and I’m utterly amazed that they let such a glaring hole in the game which is so obviously open to exploitation. I assume at some point they’ll be looking to clear up the cheaters – it’s not too hard when you start tracking IP addresses of people and looking at the transactions between them.

It seems that at the very least there should be some email verification, but even better would be to send an SMS with a code to your mobile.