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NAGANO -- A Tokyo man suspected of demanding thousands of people across the country pay bogus registration fees for accessing pornographic sites has been arrested for fraud, police said.
Investigators suspect that a fraud group led by the suspect, Takayuki Kan, 32, swindled thousands of people out of over 1 billion yen.
In the specific case for which he was arrested, Kan phoned a 23-year-old man living in Nagano Prefecture, in June 2004, and demanded that he pay some 150,000 yen in fictitious registration fee for a pornographic website he had viewed, investigators said.
Kan used lists of porn site users he had obtained from other firms and the records of access to the site his group operates to demand fictitious registration fees from many of them, investigators allege.
Last year, Nagano Prefectural Police arrested two people, including Haruyuki Minami, 37, a company executive of Kyoto, and another and have obtained arrest warrants for some others over the case.
Investigators suspect that a fraud group led by the suspect, Takayuki Kan, 32, swindled thousands of people out of over 1 billion yen.
In the specific case for which he was arrested, Kan phoned a 23-year-old man living in Nagano Prefecture, in June 2004, and demanded that he pay some 150,000 yen in fictitious registration fee for a pornographic website he had viewed, investigators said.
Kan used lists of porn site users he had obtained from other firms and the records of access to the site his group operates to demand fictitious registration fees from many of them, investigators allege.
Last year, Nagano Prefectural Police arrested two people, including Haruyuki Minami, 37, a company executive of Kyoto, and another and have obtained arrest warrants for some others over the case.
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