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Kabam warns of virtual currency fraudsters in its Hobbit mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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[Updated with Kabam’s comments]

Kabam warned players of its Hobbit mobile game that they should beware of scammers selling “cheap Mithril” on third-party web sites. The scam tries to trick players into buying cheap virtual currency that they can spend inside The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.