Re: Trio jailed for £300,000 fraud

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>, "UZnal" <unalz-at-mail333-dot-com> says...
> Saturday October 29, 2005
>
> A couple were jailed yesterday after defrauding thousands of customers
> around the world through the internet auction site eBay. In what one
> detective described as the biggest online scam he had seen, the pair stole
> £298,796 from unsuspecting bidders they called idiots.
>
> Full article at
>
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1604228,00.html
>
>
>
the question is , would you go to jail for 3 years for
$350,000? wouldn't you ?

I don't think the punishment fits the crime!

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