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The Metropolitan Police Department arrested three teenage boys on Thursday on suspicion of using stolen IDs and passwords to access Rakuten Mobile Inc.'s servers and register thousands of mobile phone lines. The suspects — two junior high school students aged 14 and 15 and a 16-year-old first-year high school student — allegedly sold around 2,500 of these illicitly acquired lines to criminal groups.
The sales reportedly earned them approximately 7.5 million yen ($50,200) in cryptocurrency, with each line selling between 1,000 and 3,000 yen. The 15-year-old from Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, told investigators he "needed money to buy a game console." At the same time, the 14-year-old from Tachikawa, Tokyo, and the high school student from Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, admitted to spending the proceeds on online gambling and other expenses.
The sales reportedly earned them approximately 7.5 million yen ($50,200) in cryptocurrency, with each line selling between 1,000 and 3,000 yen. The 15-year-old from Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, told investigators he "needed money to buy a game console." At the same time, the 14-year-old from Tachikawa, Tokyo, and the high school student from Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, admitted to spending the proceeds on online gambling and other expenses.
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