Jailed for using stolen phone to access accounts
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A man who bought a stolen cellphone containing its previous owner’s private information and used it to steal more than 50,000 yuan (US$7,660) via an online payments service was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 31,000 yuan, said Shanghai Railway Transport Court earlier this week.
The man, surnamed Yu, bought the iPhone6 Plus from a criminal on July 8 last year and found he could log onto the online-payments service Alipay without using a password. There was more than 1,000 yuan in the Alipay account, which was also linked to a bank account.
He stole over 50,000 yuan from the two accounts, mainly to buy virtual currencies for his online accounts.
To avoid being traced by police, Yu later sold the cellphone to someone else.
The victim, surnamed Shang, said his Alipay account was linked to his father’s bank account, the court said.
He noticed that his cellphone went missing when he was waiting at a local Metro station on the same day. But since he needed to return to his hometown Hangzhou City in east China’s Zhejiang Province urgently, he just reported it to police and didn’t report the loss to Alipay, which meant Yu had access to his father’s bank account.
When Shang was on his way home, his father received messages from his bank alerting him to unauthorized transactions that Yu made through the missing cellphone. Yu was later traced by police to his residence and arrested. He was charged with fraud and theft.
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