By Heather McLean, 18 December 2001 11:30
NEWS A UK teenager has been imprisoned for conning visitors to a false online auction house out of thousands of pounds. Nineteen-year-old Aun Sayal has been sentenced to nine months in a young offenders institution for 20 counts of obtaining money orders by deception. He was convicted of falsely obtaining around £150,000 from people around the world by posting adverts for bargain-priced but non-existent electrical goods between December 2000 and July 2001. Sayal was sentenced in the first case of its kind by Judge Judith Hughes at the Snaresbrook Crown Court in London. Sayal had previously been a director of an internet company selling celebrity autographs and photographs.
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