Japanese Teen Charged for Phishing
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Japanese police said they had arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of fraud after he allegedly used the Internet to steal personal details in Japan's first case of phishing involving a minor.More here.
The boy allegedly threatened people, mainly young girls, so they would send him naked photos of themselves after he had already obtained their identification details and other personal information, local media said.
Police sent papers to prosecutors charging the boy in the central city of Nagoya after he allegedly stole the IDs of 94 people by creating a website disguised as a popular Internet game site, police said.
He allegedly led them to type in personal information such as their names and e-mail addresses, they said.
posted by Fergie @ 5/30/2006 11:37:00 AM
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