Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported

Via Kotaku, a story at the Mainichi daily news about an enterprising exchange student that got himself deported. Wang Yue Si, a Chinese student who went to Japan on a student visa, found himself in need of some spending money. Since he was a gamer, he decided to make some cash by selling virtual items online. He was so successful, the cops noticed. From the article: "He started selling items such as weapons and currency for online games through an Internet auction site in April this year, without obtaining the appropriate residency status. Wang, living in Kumamoto, has admitted that he sold the virtual goods for about 6 million yen ($US 1.3 Million), in violation of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. A bank worker became suspicious when Wang regularly sent money back home to China and alerted police in August, prompting Kumamoto police officers to investigate the student."

Comments

Re:These stories get more common...

[b0s0z0ku]

If the TOS say you can't sell content out-of-game then you are a cheating lowlife and should be banned from the game, if not dragged out into the street, forced onto your knees and shot in the mouth.

Sod the TOS! If there are gullable idiots willing to buy virtual merchandise, nothing wrong with making a few bucks. Only crime is getting caught!

-b.

Re:Idiot.

[DNS-and-BIND]

I was a foreign student in Japan. Overstaying your visa gets you immigration detention and a 5-year ban on reentry. How can you "work under the table" when your visa legally allows 20 hours of work per week?

Living abroad, you really get to see just what idiots Americans are, compared to the rest of the world's population. Their women are the worst kind of racists, refusing to stay with any local men.