PayPay campaign abuse points 400,000 yen fraud or arrest of 3 people October 8 12:49
Regarding the smartphone payment service "PayPay", the company said that it abused a campaign to get 500 yen worth of points for free, created a large number of accounts and illegally cashed and deceived about 400,000 yen worth of points. Three men on the board were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department.
Three men and women were arrested, including a company officer in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, and Fujio Oda (49).
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, last year, the three people abused a campaign where they could get 500 yen worth of points for free when they registered for "PayPay", earned about 400,000 yen worth of points, and fraudulently cashed them through an internet auction site. There is a suspicion of computer fraud as a deception.
Oda and his colleagues procured about 40,000 IC cards called "SIM cards" that can be inserted into mobile phones, created a large number of accounts, and earned points.
After that, he made a successful bid for the item exhibited on the auction site himself, repeated the method of "self-made self-performance" to pay with points about 800 times, and transferred cash to the specified account, all of which were suspected against the investigation. Is to admit.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that the three people are suspected of cheating about 20 million yen by the same method.