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 Online Realm Clashes with Physical World Only in Japan can you hear a wacky story like this one. A 43-year-old woman from Tokyo was arrested today for murdering her online spouse in the popular virtual game world known as “Maple Story.” The woman met her future spouse online and married him in-game, but one day she logged in to find that he had divorced her without giving her any explanation. Incensed, the woman was able to obtain the man’s login information to access his account and “kill” his virtual character. The man called the police, and the woman is now behind bars and faces up to five years in jail or a $5,000 fine for tampering with his account.  In recent years, virtual lives have had consequences in the real world. In August, a woman was charged in Delaware with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through "Second Life," another virtual interactive world.
In Tokyo, police arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of swindling virtual currency worth $360,000 in an interactive role playing game by manipulating another player's portfolio using a stolen ID and password.
(cnn)References: cnn Comment: on Real Arrests for Virtual Murders |
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