Man Charged for Trying to Steal User Data
Excerpt from an AP newswire story on Yahoo! News:
A man was arrested Monday for allegedly setting up a phony Internet portal site to lure victims into giving personal data, an official said. Police said it was Japan's first arrest linked to a form of identity theft called phishing.
Kazuma Yabuno, a 42-year-old office worker in the western city of Osaka, was taken into custody and accused of violating copyright and unauthorized access laws, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police official said on condition of anonymity.
Yabuno allegedly defrauded users with his phony Yafoo! Japan site, which closely resembled — and has the same pronunciation in Japanese as — that of popular Net portal and auction site operator Yahoo! Japan, the official said.
Police were investigating whether Yabuno came up with the scam to steal credit card information and other sensitive information.
posted by Fergie @ 6/13/2005 06:16:00 AM
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