“I was like, ‘Holy crap!’ I was so afraid,” Emani said. “I couldn’t believe I was about to get shot over RuneScape! I was so scared I was about to die.”īajwa allegedly ordered him to call Dokler and say the transaction was complete and get him to electronically transfer the 4.7 billion RuneScape coins. That’s when Bajwa went from white knight to fire-breathing dragon - pointing a realistic-looking BB gun at Emani, the complaint says. “I took it out and said, ‘The money you have is fake,’ ” said Emani. It looks fake.’ ”īut Dokler wanted to continue with the transaction, even after Bajwa suddenly said he had to leave and asked to meet again the next night.Įmani said he came prepared for the second meeting, in a classroom, with a real $100 bill to compare with Bajwa’s money.
“I was on the phone with John, and I said, ‘Don’t do it. “He was transferring money from one envelope to another envelope, and I got a glimpse of it and it looked fake,” Emani said. Instead of transferring the money online, Bajwa allegedly wanted a face-to-face meeting - and Dokler sent his Fordham pal David Emani to collect the cash.Įmani told The Post that he met Bajwa in the school library on July 11 - and had a feeling something was wrong. Suspect Humza Bajwa, 19, of Massachusetts, pretended he was seeking to buy game currency and arranged a deal with fellow player Jonathan Dokler to purchase the nearly 5 billion coins for $3,300 in real money, according to a criminal complaint. The coins, used to buy items in the swords-and-sorcery video game “RuneScape,” are so treasured by players that they are regularly swapped online for real cash.
He turned to real-life crime to feed his virtual addiction.Ī video-game addict forced a fellow geek to fork over 4.7 billion “magic” coins by pulling a realistic-looking gun during a robbery in a Fordham University classroom, The Post has learned. JOYSTICKUP: Humza Bajwa (left) allegedly robbed a Fordham student of 4.7 billion “magic” coins to be used in the video game “RuneScape.” (
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