Bots

The real world trade underworld is much deeper than most people realize.
Most power leveling services at least in Runescape just steal your account. High level accounts are sold to gold farmers to use against bosses. Gold gets sold to players looking to quickly get rich (who are often also scammed).
There are even scripts that will automatically sell every item on the Grand Exchange, turn untradable items into money where possible, and then walk into the wilderness where a bot kills the account and takes all the gold.
That gold is then passed around between multiple mule accounts to try to prevent Jagex from banning them and deleting the gold from the game. All of this is automated using bots connecting through VPNs.
That's not even mentioning the people who train bot accounts, buying membership through credit card theft, Runescape gold being used as prison currency, staking, wilderness protection mafias, selling bot scripts, phishing...Amazon Game Studios blanket bans inactive Lost Ark users, shows up as a game ban on Steam profiles. : pcgaming (reddit.com)
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