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Yes, stories of a single man taking out 30 - 120 accounts in a single night, all belonging to an enemy mafia family who got out of hand are true. The size and scale of the attacks were insane. You use to see stuff like that more often back in 2007 - 2013, during what I like to refer to as the "golden years" of the mafia community on IMVU, back when there were dozens of large active families and around a hundred small families. At its height, 1/4th of all people on IMVU were polled as knowing of / about the mafias on IMVU. Most of the families each had at least 1 h4c|<7r on staff, contracted third party hackers from outside of IMVU, or in a few rare cases ... had a small team of pros. There literally use to be a public wiki on our site for simply keeping track of all of the mafia families on IMVU and their alliances and umbrellaed businesses. It was common for families to hold classes or start multi-family schools for training new talent. Wars and skirmishes between families were just as common as peace and alliances. Some of the wars and the stories behind them were pretty ridiculous; stuff out of legend. Our own family (The TIM Family) use to run a white hat school on security and Intel, which around half the families on IMVU use to send their troops to. IMVU inc cracked down on security pretty hard back in 2010 - 2012; by 2013 ... most of the security holes in IMVU that allowed stuff like that to happen were closed. During those years, the families survived by allying into larger and larger factions. In 2012 there was a large war between most of the mafia families ... and they all tore each other apart or fled the scene till only a single faction stood. Early 2013 IMVU staff cracked down on what remained ... going directly after individual accounts on mass instead of simply closing security holes ... all you see now are whispers and shadows of what use to be. This site remains intact and in use as a business hub, but the gigantic multi-faceted mafia community that use to openly stretch across all of IMVU is no more. Everything is underground now and quiet; there has not been a large mafias vs mafias war involving large scale hackers since 2013. I've heard that some of the non-English speaking families survived and thrived, since IMVU staff had a harder time tracking them ... but for the most part its just role-players, fakes, and small retired cells that are left ... hanging out underground and telling stories of what use to be while running what remains of their businesses.
