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                Date: 1999-02-01
                 
                 
                Ticket-Crack: Schon wieder China
                
                 
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      Mitunter sind die Methoden, durch Cracks zu Geld zu  
kommen durchaus umständlich. In China haben es  
mindestens 51 Personen so probiert: billige Zugfahrkarten   
wurden angekauft & elektronisch zu teuren Expresstickets  
mutiert, um dann im illegalen Einzelhandel weiterkauft zu  
werden.  
 
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Fifty-one people have been  
arrested on charges of hacking into a Chinese railway's  
computer system, a newspaper said Friday.  
 
Reports of such high-tech crimes are spreading as computer  
and Internet use expand in China. The scheme involved  
buying cheap tickets and reselling them after breaking into  
the reservation computer to upgrade them to more expensive  
express trains, the Shanghai Express said.  
 
Suspects include employees of high-tech companies in  
Guangdong province near Hong Kong, the newspaper said. It  
didn't name any of them.  
 
The scheme began in June and affected more than 8,000  
tickets worth $54,000 before it was uncovered in December,  
the newspaper said.  
 
In another high-tech crime, two brothers were sentenced to  
death in December on charges of robbing a bank in the  
central city of Zhenjiang by having its computer transfer  
$31,000 to their accounts. 
 
 
Source Associated Press 
relayed by betty@infowar.com via jericho@dimensional.com 
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