Activision filmed cease-and-desist papers being served to notorious Call of Duty cheat maker

Activision has taken its fight against Call of Duty cheat makers to a new level, filming a legal representative physically serving cease-and-desist papers to a notorious cheat seller known as Elocarry and posting the footage straight to the official Call of Duty X account.

Getting served on camera for online cheats

The clip shows the representative pulling up to a home in Ohio during last weekend's Modern Warfare 4 closed beta and walking up to the front door. When the man who answers, his face blurred throughout, asks what the papers are, the representative replies, "Attorneys for Activision, and it's a cease-and-desist order for you," before directing him to call the attorney's office listed on the documents.

Elocarry wasn't a small-time target. Before the visit, the operation had been advertising a Black Ops 7 and Warzone cheat package built around an aimbot, ESP, a triggerbot, and controller support, marketed as "RICOCHET-safe" with subscriptions running as high as £79.99 ($101.5) for three months. The service also sold cheats for other multiplayer games, including Rust, Apex Legends, Battlefield 6, and Marvel Rivals.

A much wider enforcement push against cheat makers

This isn't Activision's first attempt at going after cheat sellers directly rather than just banning their customers. In 2024, the publisher won a lawsuit against EngineOwning, one of the best-known cheat providers, resulting in a judgment of more than $14 million. RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, the kernel-level system underpinning Call of Duty's detection, has run since 2021 and has banned hundreds of thousands of cheaters since launch, even as it draws periodic criticism over its depth of access to players' PCs.

The Elocarry visit is part of a much larger enforcement push. In a follow-up post, Activision said it has served more than 80 similar cease-and-desist demands, disrupted more than 375 reseller operations, and shut down more than 30 vendors, framing the strategy bluntly: "We're taking the fight directly to cheat sellers."

Elocarry's website remains online, but Call of Duty and Warzone have since been pulled from its list of supported games, and a Discord message shared by Activision shows the operation saying it has "temporarily paused sales" of its Call of Duty products while conducting an internal review. Whether that pause holds, or the cheats simply resurface under a different name, remains to be seen. Reaction to the video has largely leaned toward amused approval among players, who are tired of dealing with cheaters in multiplayer and Warzone, with many treating the unusually candid footage as a win and a small moment of catharsis.

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