Police Investigating Virtual Furniture Theft 103
krou writes "Finnish police are involved in the investigation of up to 400 cases of theft from virtual world Habbo Hotel, with some users reporting the loss of up to €1000 of virtual furniture and other items. Users were targeted using a phishing scam that used fake webpages to capture usernames and passwords. There is no mention as to whether or not the thieves made off with the bath towels, gowns, shampoo bottles, and soaps."
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Informative)
Hey, towels are the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have!
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Pool's closed... (Score:1, Informative)
They should have bought a dog.
Re:"Stealing" virtual property? (Score:4, Informative)
You seem to think there is something magic about the word "money". When you call it "money", that makes it automatically of intrinsic worth. Don't work that way. The only difference between virtual furniture in an account and virtual money in an account is that one is more widely accepted.