Users are selling login details for thousands of pounds on eBay. The accounts are already filled with Pokemon, meaning that buyers get a filled up account and the associated bagging rights without having to run around finding rare Pokemon in the real world.
The sales contravene the terms of the game, and appear also to defeat the point of it – which is the fun of walking around attempting to find Pokemon. It also presents other issues, like the fact that it’s still possible to only have one account signed in, and not possible to trade Pokemon between accounts, meaning that it would only be useful to buy one account.
That hasn’t deterred people from selling the logins online. Prices vary hugely depending on the range of Pokemon that have been caught inside the account.
One Ebay user even managed to sell his account for $1,500.
This isn’t the first time enterprising players have attempted to profit from the Pokеmon Go craze. Ads for professional Pokémon trainers costing $20-30 an hour sprung up in New York within days of the US launch of the game, while some keen players jacked in their jobs to play full-time.
Would you buy an account of Pokemon Go?