I got lots of platinum in lots of bad ways. Most notably I was a tradescammer - easily one of the biggest eqlive ever saw. The server had a week-long motd warning people against me. I would enter EC and within minutes someone would shout a warning. I could log on and make 10k in 10 minutes (this is before Luclin when 10k was worth a lil bit). Trick was snag something like a FBSS or wotever that is easy to sell so you can push it really quickly. It makes it alot harder to get caught. Well they noticed the trend and the head GM (Admin-GM) of the server posed as a player auctioning a fbss and I bit. Hmm wot else. You used to be able to stand in between people who were obviously trading and go invis - sometimes you'd get someone giving something to someone and you'd get it. People auctioning in-game to sell/trade accounts or items cross server were targets. The trick to not getting caught is transfer the goods to a new char, delete the old char, sell the goods and transfer cash to a new char, and delete the selling char. And then theres ninjalooting. Scour the servers for naggy/vox raids. Start a lvl 1 rogue in neriak/halas and sneak it into the lair once the raid is getting ready to go in. Start auctioning the CoF or wotever before u do it so no one suspects you when outrage erupts. Auctioned the plat/accounts on playerauctions and made thousands. It was immoral and inexcusable, but when you're 15 years old it's fun. Flame time.
