Activision accompanied the video with a warning: “RICOCHET Anti-Cheat doesn’t end when your match does. Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we.” It later sharpened the message further: “Build cheats. Sell cheats. We will find you.”
No independent report has confirmed the recipient’s identity or established whether he developed Elocarry’s software, sold it or provided some other form of support.
Was this an enforceable legal order?
Despite the wording used at the door, a cease-and-desist demand is not automatically a court order. It is a formal warning from a company or its lawyers telling someone to stop specified conduct, usually with the threat of litigation if they refuse.
An injunction carries different weight because a court issues it. Violating one can lead to contempt proceedings and other penalties. Activision has not disclosed a court ruling against Elocarry, so the filmed delivery appears to have been a legal demand rather than an enforceable judicial order.
That does not make it meaningless. A company can use such a letter to document notice, outline alleged violations and prepare the ground for a lawsuit. Delivering it personally also removes much of the ambiguity about whether the recipient received it. Filming the exchange, meanwhile, turns routine legal service into content for millions of players who would quite like fewer aimbots in their matches.
Activision said this was “not an isolated case,” indicating that similar demands or visits have been used elsewhere in its enforcement campaign.
What happened to Elocarry afterward?
Before the visit, Elocarry promoted a package for Black Ops 7 and Warzone that included an aimbot, ESP, triggerbot and controller support. The seller claimed its software was “RICOCHET-safe,” streamproof and protected by “kernel-grade evasion.” Three-month access cost as much as £79.99.
Afterward, Activision published a message from Elocarry’s Discord server saying Call of Duty sales had been “temporarily paused” while the service reviewed “a matter internally.” That language falls somewhat short of a permanent surrender.
As of August 31, Elocarry’s website remained online and advertised cheats for nine games, including:
- Rust
- Apex Legends
- Battlefield 6
- Marvel Rivals
Call of Duty and Warzone were no longer listed. Activision therefore appears to have removed Elocarry from its own games, at least for now, without shutting down the wider business.
The distinction matters. A publisher can make selling cheats for one franchise legally expensive, but a vendor serving several games can simply retreat to other products. That is still useful for Call of Duty players. It is less impressive as an industry-wide solution.
How large is Activision’s anti-cheat campaign?
Activision said its broader campaign had disrupted more than 375 cheat-reseller operations, delivered over 80 cease-and-desist demands and shut down more than 30 vendors. Those figures go well beyond software bans and show that RICOCHET now combines technical detection with legal pressure against the commercial network supplying cheats.
The strategy has been developing for years. In March 2025, Team RICOCHET said more than 20 cheat makers and dozens of resellers had gone out of business since Black Ops 6 launched.
Its largest public legal victory came against EngineOwning. In 2024, a federal judge awarded Activision more than $14 million after the cheat software had been downloaded approximately 72,000 times in the United States. The ruling also required EngineOwning to transfer its domain to Activision.
A separate EngineOwning defendant agreed to a $1 million consent judgment and permanent restrictions preventing the development, sale or promotion of cheating and hardware-spoofing tools.
Compared with those judgments, the Elocarry visit is an earlier and more theatrical step in the legal process. It succeeded in removing Call of Duty products from the storefront, but Elocarry’s description of the pause as temporary leaves the final result unsettled. For now, Activision has won a round, filmed the delivery and made sure every other seller saw the envelope.
