Activision Tracks Call of Duty Cheat Maker to His Ohio Home, Drops New RICOCHET Numbers Ahead of Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta

Activision sent a legal representative to the Ohio home of Call of Duty cheat maker "Elocarry" on August 28, 2026, served him with a cease-and-desist in person and posted a one-minute video of the encounter to X — a pointed escalation of the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat crackdown running alongside the launch of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta.

In the official Call of Duty post on X, the studio frames the in-person visit as part of a broader offensive against cheat sellers worldwide: "RICOCHET Anti-Cheat doesn't end when your match does. Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we. We're taking the fight directly to cheat sellers." The video shows a representative explaining the purpose of the visit and handing over the cease-and-desist paperwork on camera; Elocarry takes the documents and the representative leaves. Activision also shared a screenshot of a message from the Elocarry Discord announcing that Call of Duty cheats have been paused while the operator "reviews a matter internally."

The action lands on day one of the Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta, which runs on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, Battle.net and Nintendo Switch 2 from 10:00 AM PT on Friday, August 28 through 10:00 AM PT on Tuesday, September 1, according to the Call of Duty blog post on the Open Beta Weekend Two. Beta access is free for all players, with the game launching in full on October 23, 2026.

Activision also shared updated anti-cheat numbers alongside the Elocarry stunt. According to the studio, RICOCHET has now "disrupted more than 375 cheat reseller operations, served more than 80 cease-and-desist demands and shut down more than 30 vendors," and the team is preparing to escalate to litigation: "And there's more to come, including litigation when necessary. Activision is prepared to take cheat developers and sellers to court to protect fair play." The message frames the visit as one example of a wider strategy rather than a single targeted action.

Beyond the takedown, RICOCHET is also front-loading the Modern Warfare 4 launch with hardware-level enforcement. Call of Duty requires both TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot to be enabled on Windows PCs to play online — a first for the series and one of the more aggressive anti-tamper stances in a major console shooter beta. Activision has committed to a weekly RICOCHET update cadence through the end of Modern Warfare 4's first season, covering detections, enforcement actions and ongoing work.

The Elocarry service itself was visibly affected. Calling cards for several multiplayer modes have been pulled from the site while the operator reviews the situation, although cheats for Rust, Apex Legends and Marvel Rivals were still listed at the time of writing. Outsiders describe the live stunt less as a hard takedown than as a public warning shot: Activision wants prospective Modern Warfare 4 players — and the cheat ecosystem — to see that legal pressure is now reaching individual operators, not just infrastructure.

The publisher's bet is that visible enforcement, paired with PC-side hardening, will keep cheaters out of a beta window that historically draws heavy testing. Whether the lockout holds through Modern Warfare 4's October release and its first season is the question RICOCHET's weekly updates will be measured against.