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jumble
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Conman in £10k eBay swindle is spared jail |
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| Quote: | 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 |
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Recommendation: Auction Selling 101 |
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Mark
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | 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??? |
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ATABenjamin
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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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? |
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k700
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| Defo does seem a sad state of affairs. Perhaps he used more than one account to keep going without attracting attention to himself. |
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jumble
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefully he can finish his university studies in jail! HAHAHA!  |
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