Finnish man sentenced for PS3 fraud


Submitted by Dan; January 16, 2013

A man from Ivalo, 28 has managed to order 300 Playstation 3's without paying distributor's "Nordisk Film" in 2011. The Man portrayed himself as an employee of a Finnish telecommunications company known as Elisa. The man led the distributors to believe he was ordering consoles to Elisa's retail shop in Ivalo, while giving his home address as the delivery address.

 

An accomplice, 58, was also fined for concealment after purchasing 14 consoles from the 28 year old, for 2,600 euros. He later sold another five consoles at 270 euros each. The court ruled, the man should have suspected the origin of the goods because of the low price.

 

The man sold 80+ consoles online through websites such as Huuto.net, the Finnish equivalent of eBay. He sold all consoles at a total of 15,000 euros. Police confiscated the remaining 211 consoles and returned them to the distributor.

 

The fraudster was also found guilty of attempted fraud for trying to order 305 PS3's to four different Elisa store locations.


Tags: finland, fraud, ivalo, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PS3



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# uh, what? — CodeZer0 2013-01-18 20:45
So, since when did the MSRP of a console become some kind of contract law? And why is it forbidden for an end user to then suddenly be able to purchase their system(s) for less than some arbitrary MSRP?

So if a store does it, it's liquidation. But if a user does it, it's illegal? That doesn't make any sense to me. Can someone please clarify how this counts as fraud? Because I'm confused...

That being said, unless it happened to be he scored a bunch of 60gig models like the article image showed, I kinda don't see what the big deal is.

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# RE: Finnish man sentenced for PS3 fraud — DoobZilla 2013-01-19 14:10
If I read that article correctly, it appears as though person did not pay for the PS3's that he was selling. However, purchasing stolen goods is only against the law if you know that the goods were stolen. This is somewhat difficult to prove without hard evidence such as an audio recording or text message.

Buying something at a deep discount is not enough proof to substantiate the government's claim here. I'm sure the buyer will get out on an appeal, assuming that the prosecutor doesn't have proof that he knowingly bought stolen goods.

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# RE: Finnish man sentenced for PS3 fraud — Aiden Spence 2319 2013-01-20 13:31
Lol, thats a massive price drop

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