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by **jumble** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:29 pm

A COMPUTER student conned American buyers out of thousands of pounds by placing bogus adverts on eBay in a bid to pay off university debts.

Imran Akram, 27, pocketed £10,500 after advertising expensive electrical equipment on the internet auction site.
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He took money from buyers in California and Ohio after advertising £1000 laptop computers and Playstation games that he pretended to have.

But he was tracked down after 42 complaints were made by customers who never received the goods.

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=679412007

by **Mark** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:54 pm

But he was tracked down after 42 complaints were made by customers who never received the goods.

Why did it take 42 complaints before they were able to track him down???

by **ATABenjamin** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:42 pm

at least they were able to track him down.
But still, that's a really sad state of events, and I wonder why there wasn't negative feedback left?

by **k700** » Sun May 06, 2007 10:50 am

Defo does seem a sad state of affairs. Perhaps he used more than one account to keep going without attracting attention to himself.

by **jumble** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:32 pm

Hopefully he can finish his university studies in jail! HAHAHA!

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