Boys arrested over cyber crimes

SEMARANG, Central Java: Semarang Police arrested two boys on Sunday and seized evidence in connection with illegal transactions they allegedly conducted on the internet, Antara reported.

Semarang Police chief Snr. Comr. Halba R. Nugroho said the two suspects, identified as Reza, 18 and Wahyu, 17, both residents of East Kauman subdistrict, were nabbed at a courier agency in the city.

Halba said the two boys were using random credit card account numbers to pay for their transactions at the Australian shopping site www.oakley.com.

There were at least seven transactions for backpacks, three for hats and seven for branded sunglasses over the last three months. The total purchases were worth millions of rupiah.

Halba said that initially police received reports from the courier agency complaining that the teenagers were unable to pay the tax and administration charges on their packages.