Watch out ! Now Pokemon Go Players Can Be Trapped by Robbers

The world of thugs or robbers is now taking advantage of their actions related to the issue of popularity mobile games Pokemon Go, The robber will carry out his cunning action as revealed by the police team in Missouri, United States.

The new police team suspects that the thugs are using one of the Pokemon Go features called Lure Modules. This feature can be accessed by buying it in the application, namely: in-app purchases.

This Lure Modules feature serves to put the location of Pokemon, or so-called Pokestops. Well here the robbers work will put Pokemon monsters, and the location will be used by the robbers as traps.

Here Pokemon Go players will be lulled by the location to be able to catch Pokemon on target. Actually the robber is waiting for Pokemon Go players to the location that has been prepared by the robber.

“Those thugs or robbers will take advantage of the geolocation in the game. They lure then profit off the victim” as Sergeant Bill Stinger put it, as reported TheRegister.

In this case, three thugs have been arrested. All of them are minors, one is 17 years old and the other two are 18 years old.

They were arrested while wearing a gun in a black BMW mobile. For these crimes they were fined 100,000 US dollars, equivalent to Rp. 1.3 billion.

After an investigation, it turns out that this is not the first time this has happened, as revealed by the police. So players are advised not to go to Pokestops in dark and deserted areas.