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Dutch teenager arrested for 'virtual theft'

Habbo Hotel avatarThe Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website, was robbed of thousands of dollars in furniture.  A Dutch teenager has been accused of moving stolen furniture, which was paid for with real money, into his personal Habbo room.

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 cash.

"It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people's usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture.

"We got involved because of an increasing number of sites which are pretending to be Habbo. People might then try and log in and get their details stolen."
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Illinois police are on the search for 6 foot tall man weighing 300 pounds who has stiffed several day spas of thousands of dollars.

Police in the Chicago suburb of Algonquin on Thursday continued to search for a thief who looks, smells and feels marvelous.

Algonquin Police Detective Andrew Doles said the man has ordered up an array of services in at least 20 spas in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin since last March and left without paying the bill.

"Pedicures, manicures, facials, those are the standards he goes for," Doles said.

All told, the man has stiffed spas for several thousand dollars worth of services, he said.

The man typically gets treatments such as a sea salt body polish, a hair cut and color, but before it's time for his massage, he says he has to leave the building to use his cell phone or get papers from his briefcase. Then, Doles said, the man leaves and never returns.
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