Today's reports stated that the Japanese police arrested a woman and her son for canceling more than 3,200 hotel reservations, which cost the affected hotels a million dollars, while collecting points within a reward program worth 22 thousand dollars.
The police in Kyoto (West) confirmed to AFP that they arrested a 51-year-old woman and her 31-year-old son for making false reservations in three hotels last November, which caused losses estimated at $ 864.
But this figure may be a small part of the amount, as local media reported that the duo canceled 3,250 fake hotel reservations throughout Japan over a year through the online reservation service, causing losses totaling 115 million yen ($ 1.04 million) To those institutions.
Through these bogus reservations, the mother and son collected digital reward points of 2.5 million yen, according to the national Radio HKK and other media.