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发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 30 09:56:53 2010, 美东)
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/30/nationwide-employee-sentenced-to-212-years.html?sid=101
Nationwide employee sentenced to 2 1/2 years for counterfeit video games
Thursday, December 30, 2010 02:53 AM
BY KATHY LYNN GRAY
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
New monitoring software at Nationwide Insurance spelled the beginning of the
end for an employee who had been counterfeiting and selling computer games
for five years.
The software alerted Nationwide officials to a spreadsheet that Qiang "
Michael" Bi had sent from his personal e-mail account to his Nationwide e-
mail account. The spreadsheet listed eBay accounts, credit-card numbers and
false identity information that Bi used in a lucrative counterfeiting scheme.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sentenced the 36-year-old
Bi to 2 1/2 years in prison. Bi had pleaded guilty earlier this year to
charges of mail fraud, copyright infringement and aggravated identity theft.
The sentence includes two years of probation, one year of which is to be
home confinement; 416 hours of community service; and a yet-to-be determined
restitution amount. Bi also forfeited $367,669 in cash, representing the
proceeds of the crimes, as well as his house, a 2006 Lexus SUV and computer
and electronic equipment.
"I believe at your core you are a good person," Marbley told Bi. "You made a
gross error in judgment ... and it seemed all motivated by greed."
Agents with the FBI Cybercrime Task Force and the U.S. Postal Inspection
Service found that Bi had sold more than 35,000 computer games with a retail
value of $700,000.
The spreadsheet listed more than 50 eBay and PayPal accounts, all with
different names. Bi told investigators he used other people's information on
the accounts because eBay and PayPal had suspended his accounts and do not
allow a new account with the same name and address as a suspended account.
Investigators found that Bi had sold the games from 2005 through December
2009 for $10 rather than the $20 retail price for an original new game. He
also had allowed customers to download games purchased over the Internet,
using a server he leased under the name TML Direct.
Bi, of Powell, promised in court to "be a better person" and "never commit
another crime."
Court records show that he was born in China, came to the United States in
1999 and became a citizen in 2008. |
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