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Post-obit the arrests in Turkey of forty suspects over allegations of credit card fraud involving Twitch's Turkish edition, the Demirören News Agency (DHA) has reported that some of the arrested suspects collaborated with streamers who were paid handsomely for their participation in these alleged crimes.

The alleged scam ran something like this: a gang of fraudsters used stolen credit card details to purchase Bits (Twitch's in-app currency) and donate them to various streamers, who and then refund the money, thereby "cleaning" it. In some cases, the streamers were in on the scam. In others, the scammers told the streamers that the money had been earned legitimately from advertising on Twitch.

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The scam was get-go exposed in October by two users of Turkish gaming forum FrmTR. The accusers had noticed that many Turkish streamers, many of whom were not even large names, had been earning unusually high quantities of Bits. This led to the scandal existence brought to the attending of the Turkish parliament, and an extensive constabulary operation followed soon afterwards.

The 40 arrests were made across 11 of Turkey's provinces, with minors included amidst the suspects. Police report that 4 more suspects remain at large. It doesn't announced that any of the suspects currently existence detained are streamers, only if the allegations of knowing collaboration turns out to exist true, then many more arrests could be made every bit the investigation continues.