Teenager arrested for stealing virtual furniture in Habbo Hotel

Posted Nov 14, 2007 at 2:58PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Off Topic Tags: Denmark

Do you think that virtual stealing is limited only to MMORPGs, where powerful items and weapons are regarded as extreme valuables? Think again. A Dutch teenager was arrested recently for stealing virtual furniture in Sulake's virtual networking site Habbo Hotel. Yes, it's not uber-powerful blades that are being snatched nowadays. Stealing furniture is IN.

The teenager, who remains anonymous, is charged with stealing Habbo Hotel furniture worth 4,000 Euros (about US$ 5,800). Aside from the accused, five other teenagers were also suspected of moving the stolen furniture into their own Habbo rooms, and were already questioned by the police for the virtual theft.

The teenagers were accused of using the phishing method in order to lure and trick other Habbo Hotel users into giving their usernames and passwords, which were then used to infiltrate their accounts and take away all their furniture.

Via BBC

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by LildudeNC - 2007-11-15 17:27:44

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WTF is habbo hotel?? and virtual furniture? that game sounds
pretty lame..

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