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Friday, February 14, 2003
Japanese Man Arrested For Virtual Theft "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that a 21-year-old man was arrested for "illegally accessing an Internet game server to sell a virtual 'house' owned by a woman to another game participant for 50,000 yen, police said Thursday. According to the MPD, Ryusei Sakano of Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, posed as a female game player he met online while playing 'Ultima Online,' a popular Internet-based game. Sakano reportedly asked the game's system administrator to provide the female player's entry password on the pretext that she had lost her password to the game." Not sure how this one works yet but very interesting, not unlike other virtual crimes of the past, however i think this is the first designed to make actual money in th enon virtual sense : ) !!!
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