Fake Olympics Website Nets Chinese Man US$52,630
30th Sep 2007
A Twenty-year-old man Liao Peigui, from south China's island province of Hainan has been arrested for operating a fake official Olympics Web site.
Peigui, who works as a computer engineer, is suspected of making 400,000 yuan (US$52,630) by goading people into entering fake prize draws on a Web site he "cloned" from the official one of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games.
China launched a six-month campaign targeting online pornography, illegal lotteries, contraband trade and fraud.
Source: Chinadaily.com.cn
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