3 Chinese men held for using shopping points of others

September 19, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo police have arrested two Chinese men on suspicion of making unauthorized online access and using shopping points of other person at an outlet of electronics retailer Bic Camera Inc.

The two arrested by the cybercrime division of the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of fraud and a violation of the law banning illegal online access included a 24-year-old student in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of the Japanese capital. He denied the allegations, saying that he was just asked by a friend of his to buy a product.

The division also arrested for alleged fraud a 23-year-old unemployed Chinese man in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, who is a member of the same fraud group to which the two other arrested men belong.

The police suspect that the group has illegally used other people's shopping points worth at least 2 million yen. Jiji Press