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              | Date: 1999-02-01 
 
 Ticket-Crack: Schon wieder China-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 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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