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[May 30, 2006]

Police arrest alleged member of Yahoo Japan auction phishing ring+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)KYOTO, May 30_(Kyodo) _ The Kyoto police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of belonging to a phishing ring who stole personal information on people who accessed a fake Yahoo Japan auctions site.

It is the first police crackdown in Japan on an organized phishing fraud case, according to the Kyoto police, which have investigated the case with the Shizuoka and Kumamoto police.

The suspect, Takayuki Matsuoka, 34, a resident of Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, is charged with fraud and violating the Unauthorized Computer Access Law. The police said they have obtained arrest warrants for seven other people in the ring.

The Tokyo-based ring is suspected of stealing the personal information of some 1,000 people since last year and to have defrauded some 700 people of about 100 million yen by using the data, the police said.

From September last year to April this year, the group sent users of the auction service unsolicited e-mails purporting to show their Yahoo auction records, the police said.

When recipients clicked on a Web link in the spam they were taken to a fake Yahoo auction site and some of them provided their ID's and passwords, which the group used to access the real auction site and spuriously put items, including watches and audio equipment, up for sale, the police said.

People who made what they thought were successful bids on the items wired payments to the group's bank accounts.

Matsuoka was arrested specifically on suspicion of stealing data from at least two men, in Kyoto and Kumamoto Prefecture, and defrauding two other men, in Tokyo and Aichi Prefecture, respectively, of a combined 500,000 yen.

Investigators tracked down the suspects by analyzing Internet access records and videos from security monitors at financial institutions where the wired money was withdrawn, the police said.

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