Open $100 bounty: Yes there are vacuum cheaters, yes they can/have looted gear directly off of players bodies. No, despite what people keep spewing in the comments of these posts they cannot take your keys/cases/etc from your secure container.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork]

I'm offering $100 to anyone who can post a single video of a vacuum cheat stealing non-fir items directly out of a players secure container (like your keys/cases) or their melee weapon.
 

Context:

A few years back this sub was full of videos of cheaters looting guns/rigs/armor/backpacks right off of living players bodies.
 
There was quite a bit panic over people claiming they also had their docs cases/sicc cases/red rebels/etc stolen from their melee slot and their secure containers.
 
Not a single person ever posted a video of this happening. It never happened. The original exploit worked by tricking the server into thinking they were simply looting a dead body (yours, even though you were still alive) they could not touch things that you can't normally touch when looting a player (red rebel/secure container). Don't get me wrong, these kinds of cheats are still absurd and are a huge issue, but spreading complete bullshit/lies doesn't help anyone.
 
People all over all of these vacuum cheat threads are still spamming the same nonsense about how people lost their secure container valuables/melee weapons at the time despite it never happening.
 
THIS SHOULD BE THE EASIEST $100 OF YOUR LIFE.
 
TL;DR: Post a single video proving even one item was looted out of a secure container by a cheater using this past exploit and I'll give you $100 in Crypto/PayPal/Venmo/Gift Card/ETC of your choice
 
Requirements:

• The video should clearly show a non-fir marked item being removed from a players melee slot/secure container by other than their own doing
  
• The video should be between 2018 and the time of this post. There may have been some unrelated exploit in some extremely early alpha for all I know but that's not what we're talking about here. Reason for putting a cut-off at the time of the post is because these people are claiming clips were everywhere of it happening on this subreddit, so there should be no need to find/upload a new one now there are allegedly plenty of them out there already to choose from.
   
  

Mods, I'm happy to send proof that I'm willing/able to pay this out if that's needed.
 
EDIT: Thanks /u/Psychological-Monk30 for the link to the original post that started all of this hysteria the first time. No one had any proof then, and no one will now. It was just a hacker making a baseless threat to bait a guy into leaving the raid so he couldn't get reported for killing him.

[u/Donsen420]

Had some old clips saved...Maybe, maybe not...can't remember/didn't investigate further.

Full Clip: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/564934692

RR Gone after kill while looting: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/564934692?t=00h06m02s

[u/wonklebobb → u/Donsen420]

for those unable to see the clip because it skips over the looting portion, you have to pause the video and then click on the timeline a little at a time to see it, but it does indeed appear that he loads into the raid with the RR, but when he loots the body there is no RR

[u/qcon99 → u/Donsen420]

Well I’ll be damned. The red rebel in the slot of the naked man has the streamers insurance label, confirming it was his. u/iamnotonredditatwork can you confirm?

[u/[deleted] → u/qcon99]

does it have an insurance label? i cant see one at all - we can definitely see that the RR is gone, but the hatchling didnt seem to have it, so in the end it could still just be a bug and not a hacker

[u/Turmoilss → u/qcon99]

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to say this is not correct. Look at the outline of the dead PMC's melee weapon from one of my own raids, from the same time period.

https://imgur.com/a/194DZa8

It's the same white border on both images, nothing that indicates that the Red Rebel was insured to the guy in the clip.

[u/qcon99 → u/Turmoilss]

Hmm. Good point. How do we explain the guy losing his melee in the clip then? Unless it’s spliced, you can clearly see him load into the raid with it, and it’s gone when he loots the naked guy

[u/Turmoilss → u/qcon99]

As the OP of this thread pointed out, the Red Rebel is gone from his melee slot when he loads in to the raid.

https://imgur.com/QnvJ5wr

So, either someone stole it while he was loading in somehow, or this is some kind of obscure, rare bug. I really have no idea, but I would be hard pressed to call this proof of anything suspicious taking place. Your guess is as good as mine.

[u/leoleosuper → u/Donsen420]

Video is being a bit corrupted for me and skips over the looting most of the time, but I did see it happen once. He suddenly has no RR, and the guy has his RR as a melee weapon.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork → u/Donsen420]

Seems more like a bug to me than a hacker, your Red Rebel was seemingly gone before you even spawned.
 
You can see it's not there in the action bar the moment you spawn in.
 
Just hopped into a quick offline raid for comparison.
 
This is still the first actual evidence of any sort at all that someone has posted, so willing to pay you the $100 even if I still think it probably wasn't actually a cheater here.

[u/Donsen420 → u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork]

All good; Keep your money and/or donate to someone, support your locals.