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FG Lurker wrote:Does anyone know what happened with this? Did it ever launch? Total scam?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:For the low price of 40 man yen, I'll tell you all about it.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:For the low price of 40 man yen, I'll tell you all about it.
FG Lurker wrote:Does anyone know what happened with this? Did it ever launch? Total scam?
Police searched the offices of an IT firm, a system developer and 14 other locations Thursday in connection with a virtual world-based investment scam involving some 28,000 members and 10 billion yen in cash.
Saitama Prefectural Police suspect members were attracted to the "Xing World" virtual community, conceived by system developer Frepar Networks and managed by IT firm Biz International, through false claims -- a violation of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions.
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However, Xing World's virtual spaces were not yet complete by its October 2009 general release, with only a small number of neighborhoods open to users. Furthermore, the world did not have the real estate trade function advertised to early members, and avatars were unable to do anything except walk through a limited number of locales.
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" wrote:However, Xing World's virtual spaces were not yet complete by its October 2009 general release, with only a small number of neighborhoods open to users. Furthermore, the world did not have the real estate trade function advertised to early members, and avatars were unable to do anything except walk through a limited number of locales.
SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- The chief of Internet service firm Biz International was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of enticing people to join a cyberspace service, which police believe is linked to a pyramid scheme, on false information, police said.
Shigeo Ishihara, 49, is alleged to have deceived two people in February and March 2009 to join the Internet virtual world by lying to them that major companies are taking part and that users can engage in real estate business.
The company collected roughly 9.1 billion yen from about 25,000 members between June 2007 and May 2009 by selling a set of business materials that contained a DVD of the virtual world, according to the police who suspect the business of being a massive scam.
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