33 year Shintarō Momoi and his 25-year-old wife Yumi were arrested for fraud charges on Monday for allegedly scamming two Evangelion phones from an online auction.

According to the Niigata prefectural police, the two Miyagi Prefecture residents bidded on an auction for the phones from a male office employee in his 20s from Niigata. The couple reportedly requested the payment-on-delivery option for the auction in late July of last year, but did not actually pay when they received the phones.

The closing price of the auction was 270,000 yen (about US$2,700). The original market value of the phones was 98,000 yen (US$980) each or 196,000 yen (US$1,960) for both. Momoi allegedly admitted to reselling the phones already.

20,000 Evangelion phone were released for pre order; they all sold out in under five hours, so a buyer for US$2,700 is not that unlikely given the rarity of the phone.

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