Student faces charges for game site ID fraud

[Klilynkun]

Student faces charges for game site ID fraud

A junior high school student from Nagoya has been reported to prosecutors for obtaining ID numbers of an online game site by pretending to be an official of the company that runs the site, police said.

The 14-year-old student, a member of the Han Game site, wanted to obtain "items" such as clothes for game characters.

For that purpose, he apparently needed ID numbers and mail addresses of other site members.

Pretending to be an employee of the company running the site, he sent e-mails to elementary and junior high school girls fictitiously saying that there had been violations of game rules. The girls who received his e-mail apparently had to access a new site the boy opened to obtain the girls' ID numbers.

The boy also accessed the company's server and altered some girls' ID numbers. When some girls asked him to return their ID numbers, he told the girls to send him obscene photographs.

"I did it because I wanted to obtain game items," he said. "But my scam escalated into targeting girls."

Han Game has a membership of some 16 million people in Japan.


Does this type of stuff happen anywhere else other than Japan and Korea?

[羽之助]

Oh probably. I think people did that with the whole Neopets thing.

[Klilynkun]

I had a short lived neopet once.....

[MNJetter]

I had a neopet once too...if they didn't cancel your account after so many days of non-use, I would still have one, in a perpetual state of starving to death, because (at least, at the time I signed up for one), they never actually die.

Sounds like the kid went mad with the taste of his own power. He should have waited until actually becoming a super-villain before "escalating" a devious plot into something diabolical :D

[Klilynkun]

"I'm the diabolical Online-Boy, plunderer of virtual worlds... tremble before my fictional fan base"

[koku]

The 14 year old kid should be rewarded for being a smart-ass.

[haterllnation]

Yes, the reward: A solid drop kick. Yeh, he was moving faster than his pubes could grow. That was a funny transition, though. "Well, I just wanted to see what girls had in their purse, I don't know HOW that got to me decapitating ladies and bowling their heads off the hillside...wow".

[Urban~Ninja]

Well he was actually pretty smart i'll give him that, but damn if it wasnt for all the wrong reasons.

[haterllnation]

It really isn't hard to phish. You would be surprised. I think he got in over his head. Well, he can always try again unless this spooked him.

[Pierrot le Fou]

In what universe is acquiring obscene photos of women a 'wrong reason?' Sounds like he realized that he had his priorities backwards, switching from a game to some nudity.

[eledoremassis02]

lol, what was he thinking?!

[Scott Vincent]

Sounds like he needed to "learn2play"