「auPAY」で架空取引繰り返し約1.71億ポイント詐取か　男女6人逮捕(2023年11月10日)

Approximately 171 million points were repeatedly stolen through fake transactions using “auPAY” Six men and women arrested (2023/11/10)

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電子決済サービス「auPAY」を使い、架空の取引を繰り返してポイントをだまし取ったとして男女6人が逮捕されました。　
Six men and women were arrested for using the electronic payment service “auPAY” to steal points by repeatedly making fake transactions.
古物販売会社の役員・南元貴容疑者と自営業の櫻井慎太郎容疑者ら6人は2020年3月から2年半で276億円以上の架空取引を行い、
Six people, including Motoki Minami, the CEO of a second-hand sales company, and Shintaro Sakurai, a self-employed employee, made fictitious transactions worth more than 27.6 billion yen in two and a half years since March 2020
還元されたおよそ1億7100ポイントをだまし取った疑いが持たれています。　
and these people are suspected of defrauding about 171,000 bonus points.
警視庁によりますと、櫻井容疑者らが商品購入を装って「auPAY」で南容疑者の会社に代金を支払い、その後、金を櫻井容疑者らに戻していました。　
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Suspect Sakurai and others paid Minami's company using "auPAY" under the guise of purchasing products, then returned the money to Sakurai and others.
不正に得たポイントの一部は現金化して生活費に使ったとみられています。　
It is believed that some of the fraudulently obtained points were converted into cash and used for living expenses.
警視庁は、南容疑者が数十人と共謀して700億円近くの架空取引を行ったとみて調べています。
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the case, suspecting that Minami conspired with dozens of others to carry out fictitious transactions worth nearly 70 billion yen.

電子決済サービス「auPAY」を使い、架空の取引を繰り返してポイントをだまし取ったとして男女6人が逮捕されました。　

サービス

Service, help, assistance, care, concern; discount, freebie, free gift; service, serve; service, servicing, (product) maintenance

逮捕

Arrest, apprehension, capture

電子

Electron; (esp. as a prefix) electronic, electronics

架空

Aerial, overhead; fiction, fictitious, imaginary, fanciful

人

Person

男女

Masculine woman, mannish woman; feminine man, effeminate man; intersexual, hermaphrodite

ポイント

Point; points (of a railway), switch

繰り返し

Repetition, repeat, reiteration, iteration, refrain, cycle; repeatedly

として

As (i.e. in the role of), for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that..., trying to..

使い

Errand, mission, going as envoy; messenger, bearer, errand boy, errand girl; familiar spirit; use, usage, user, trainer, tamer, charmer

取引

Transactions, dealings, business

決済

Settlement, payment of account
古物販売会社の役員・南元貴容疑者と自営業の櫻井慎太郎容疑者ら6人は2020年3月から2年半で276億円以上の架空取引を行い、

以上

Not less than, ... and more, ... and upwards; beyond ... (e.g. one''s means), further (e.g. nothing further to say), more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that); above-mentioned, foregoing; since ..., seeing that ..; this is all, that is the end, the end

億

10^8, 100,000,000, hundred million

販売

Sales, selling, marketing

円

Yen, japanese monetary unit; circle

者

Person

月

Monday

架空

Aerial, overhead; fiction, fictitious, imaginary, fanciful

人

Person

行い

Deed, act, action, conduct, behavior, behaviour, asceticism

会社

Company, corporation; workplace

年

Year; many years; age; past one''s prime, old age

半

Half, semi-; half-past; odd number; unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

容疑

Suspicion, charge

取引

Transactions, dealings, business

貴

Honorific, familiar suffix

役員

Officer, official, executive, staff

自営業

independent business

古物

antique, old article, secondhand goods
還元されたおよそ1億7100ポイントをだまし取った疑いが持たれています。　

億

10^8, 100,000,000, hundred million

還元

Reduction, resolution, deoxidization, deoxidation; restoration, return

ポイント

Point; points (of a railway), switch

疑い

Doubt, question, uncertainty, skepticism, scepticism, suspicion, distrust
警視庁によりますと、櫻井容疑者らが商品購入を装って「auPAY」で南容疑者の会社に代金を支払い、その後、金を櫻井容疑者らに戻していました。　

者

Person

金

Gold (au), golden (color), gold (medal, cup); valuable, of highest value; gold coin, money; friday; metal (fourth of the five elements); jin (dynasty of china; 1115-1234 ce); gold general; testicles; karat, carat

商品

Commodity, article of commerce, goods, stock, merchandise

代金

Price, payment, cost, charge, the money, the bill

購入

Purchase, buy

会社

Company, corporation; workplace

南

South

戻し

Returning, giving back

その後

After that, afterwards, thereafter

支払い

Payment

容疑

Suspicion, charge

警視庁

Metropolitan police department (esp. tokyo)
不正に得たポイントの一部は現金化して生活費に使ったとみられています。　

生活

Living, life (one''s daily existence), livelihood

不正

Injustice, unfairness, iniquity, impropriety, irregularity, dishonesty, illegality, fraud

現金

Cash, ready money, money on hand, currency; mercenary, self-interested, calculating

一部

One part, one portion, one section, some; one copy (e.g. of a document)

費

Cost, expense

ポイント

Point; points (of a railway), switch

化

Action of making something, -ification

得

Profit, advantage, benefit, gain; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
警視庁は、南容疑者が数十人と共謀して700億円近くの架空取引を行ったとみて調べています。

億

10^8, 100,000,000, hundred million

円

Yen, japanese monetary unit; circle

者

Person

数

Several, a number of; number, numeral, figure; destiny, fate; law

十

Ten

架空

Aerial, overhead; fiction, fictitious, imaginary, fanciful

人

Person

調べ

Investigation, inspection, examination; tune, note, melody

近く

Near, neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity; nearly (i.e. "it took nearly one year"), close to; shortly, soon

南

South

容疑

Suspicion, charge

取引

Transactions, dealings, business

警視庁

Metropolitan police department (esp. tokyo)

共謀

Conspiracy, collusion, complicity, being in cahoots