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Japanese police have arrested a 14-year-old boy suspecting him of indulging in fraud after he supposedly used the internet to pinch personal details in Japan’s first ever case of phishing involving a minor.

The boy allegedly threatened people, chiefly young girls, so they would send him naked photos of themselves after he had already obtained their identification details and other personal information, local media said.

Police sent papers to prosecutors charging the boy in the central city of Nagoya after he allegedly stole the IDs of 94 people by creating a website disguised as a popular Internet game site, police said.

He allegedly led them to type in personal information such as their names and e-mail addresses, they said.

The teenager reportedly gained his computer knowledge through the internet.