A Chinese vocational school student living in Tokyo was arrested on suspicion of fraud after hijacking another person's account for the smartphone payment service "Merpay" and illegally purchasing products. Police interviews revealed that unauthorized logins were being made repeatedly from within China.
The police are investigating in detail, assuming that the vocational school student was one of the instructors, such as sending barcodes for payment to multiple actors in the country.
A Chinese vocational school student living in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Hu Oku (29) was arrested in early March last year on suspicion of fraud, etc., for illegally logging into someone else's Merpay account and purchasing a product. On the 8th, he was sent to the public prosecutor's office.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the vocational school student was in China at the time of the incident, and sent images of the bar code used for payment obtained through unauthorized access to the culprit in Japan, and had him purchase e-cigarettes at a convenience store in Tokyo. That's it.
On the other hand, in the investigation so far, 10 Chinese people have been accused of illegally purchasing electronic cigarettes in Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Saitama Prefecture using the barcode image of "Merpay" from October last year to March last year. people are arrested.
What is known to have been damaged is that the account of 69 people in their 20s to 70s nationwide was illegally purchased over 1 million yen.
Police believe that the vocational school student was one of the instructors for the group in Japan and were involved in a series of incidents, and are investigating the situation in detail.
Police have not released the identity of the suspect, citing an obstacle to the investigation.