eBay fraud boy detained for year

Just heard this on the radio, thought it was pertinent to post as a forum member has just lost out on ebay.

A teenage fraudster who conned customers of the internet auction site eBay out of £45,000 has been sent to a detention centre for a year.

He told one deceived customer: "This is my business - I make people fools."

Linky

 

They should have put the b*stard away for five. Someone needs to be made an example of.

 

Yeah,

And Nick leeson's living it up in Ireland and has just been appointed commercial manager of Galway United.

Cheeky Sod

How do these pr**ks do it???

 

Can anyone clarify for me - did he get to keep the £45K, cos if so I've just hatched a business plan....

Bob

 

Some details here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4512709.stm

 

I dont agree with making examples of people. Punishment should fit the crime, nothing more.

 

bob - I think that the 45k was spent long before it went to court.

 

serves him right.

 

Hilarious stuff, and I quote, "The court heard how Shortman had married and become a father since his arrest"!!!! (My italics). Cheers for that amusing link Mart.

 

Just down the road from me. Might go and point and laugh at the "fool" sometime.

 

so 12 months 'detention' earns him £45k - am I right?

Bob

 

Do people banged up earn pension credits?

Bob

 

oh come on just look at him, surely thats punishment enough

 

Seems like it, although I assume he would now have crinimal record so he may find it hard to get jobs.

 

I would imagine that the court has taken away any goods he bought with his ill gotten profits.

What really suprises me though is that none of these ripped-off ebay purchases managed to track him down and kick his ass!

 

What really suprises me though is that none of these ripped-off ebay purchases managed to track him down and kick his ass![/QUOTE]

Been done myself and it's not easy to get the courts to use Compensation/Confiscation orders etc to get the goods especially when they have spent the money.
Sometimes the best way is as you say is 'to boot their bottom into orbit' in my case the best bit was the guy was caught, released on bail and carried on trading on fleabay.... :grrr:

 

Thing is, he'll serve 6 months of this sentence if that, then be released and will probably go straight back to doing it, only this time he'll be a damn site smarter and harder to track down.

 

I know several people that if ripped off not only would they track down the culprit but there would be no ass kicking, just a missing person. Surely if you were this guy you'd be nervous of ripping off the "wrong" person.