EVE is famously anything-goes, with corporations (EVE equivalent of guilds) being very careful about who they accept specifically to prevent this type of attack. I would be very surprised if there were any moderator intervention about it, as joining up with corps in order to drain their bank accounts is expected behavior.
As another example of EVE conventions, in 2012 the biggest trading hub was attacked [0]. This is nominally a safe area, and indeed the NPC security responded to every attack. This was part of the cost-benefit analysis of the attackers, who were aiming to drive up the price of resources that they had hoarded. When other players complained to the developers, the developers found it hilarious, and helped advertise about the attack.
> EVE is famously anything-goes, with corporations (EVE equivalent of guilds) being very careful about who they accept specifically to prevent this type of attack.
Really? The general run of comments seems to indicate that the attack could only succeed because nobody in the targeted corporation noticed a popup warning them about the attack for 72 straight hours.
That strongly suggests that very few corporations should have any guards at all in place to prevent this type of attack, because there's no way for the attack to succeed unless everyone in the targeted corporation has stopped playing the game.
Eve has a really robust API that allows corporations to use third party apps to gather background checks before a new member is admitted.
You can see corp (clan) history as well as all transactions between players. If you’re claiming to be a new pilot, but a 9 year old or 1 day old account is funneling money to you that would raise a flag.
No it's that corporate membership history is immutable and public on characters. So it's a bad look to be an old character with a string of now bankrupted, stolen or overthrown corps on your history.
