Dai Wan, a 22-year-old Chinese woman attending college in Japan, was arrested after withdrawing almost 12 million yen stolen from Japanese online-banking accounts, according to police in Kyoto. Acting on instructions received through the Chinese-language QQ text-message service, Dai allegedly took the money out of ATMs at convenience stores in the city over two months starting in March, says Kyoji Shibata of the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s anticybercrime department.
She is accused of sending the cash to other Chinese residents in Japan to buy luxury goods and diapers, which were probably shipped to China to be sold at higher prices, says Shibata. “The money they steal in Japan will end up giving them multiple returns in China,” he says. Dai was charged with theft and the transfer of criminal proceeds and is being detained for trial in Kyoto District Court, Shibata says. Dai’s lawyer, Hiromasa Nakaya, says his client wasn’t aware that she was committing a crime or working for gangs. She thought she was performing a legitimate part-time job, he says.
Customers visiting the website of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ—the lending unit of Mitsubishi UFJ—see a red-and-yellow warning sign with text urging them not to enter their passwords in response to e-mails purporting to come from the company. The site also alerts users to computer viruses and offers protective software. “It’s a game of cat and mouse,” said Japanese Bankers Association Chairman Nobuyuki Hirano, who is also president of Mitsubishi UFJ, at an October news briefing. “They always come up with tricks that seem to be one step ahead of our defenses.”
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