You are here: Six million people in over 30 countries play the 3D social networking website Habbo Hotel each month. Habbo users can create their own characters, decorate their own rooms and play a number of games, paying with Habbo Credits, which they have to buy with real money. It’s always been reported that “in Habbo, as in many other virtual worlds, scamming for other people’s personal information such as user names has been problematic for quite a while.”
Last week a Dutch teenager was arrested by police for stealing virtual furniture from rooms in habbohotel coins. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing €4,000 ($5,936 / £2,875) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money. Five 15-year-olds have also been questioned by police, who were contacted by the website’s owners. The six teenagers are suspected of moving the stolen furniture into their own habbohotel coins rooms.
A representative from the Amsterdam police department said: “We are trying to bring charges of theft. It is a little difficult and new. There has not yet been a judgment in a case like this. The furniture may not be physical objects but because it represents a certain value we think theft is involved.”
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