04:32 
Mon, 13th October 2008
Faux Game Scam Nets $19,500
A Minnesota Negro has been inactive and live for commerce games on eBay, some of which he acquired after backward fictitious versions of the titles to retailers, reports the Austin Post-Bulletin.
Over the instruction of a year, 30-year-old Frank President pulled downbound an estimated $19,562 from the online understanding of 447 games.
Buchanan’s strategy consisted of purchase games from topical retailers, copying the CD/DVD counterbalance art, applying it to grapheme discs, then backward the faux games to stores. President then oversubscribed the veritable games on eBay.
His strategy was yet foiled after assign officials detected $23,178 in 192 removed refunds on his account.
Buchanan today faces threesome felony counts of “theft by swindle” in the Mower (Minnesota) District Court.
Rural Albert Lea Negro accused of recording mettlesome scam [Austin Post-Bulletin, via Kotaku]
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Melted From: Wired: Game|Life
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