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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."
Say "make it $5 and you've got a deal."
You're the host, what would you do?
House Rules: The house takes a 50% cut of all real money transactions that affect game play.
If Chon Wang wants to sell Park Place to Princess Pei Pei for $10, someone's going to have to fork $5 over to me.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
See, because you suggested letting them off lightly like that you got modded troll. Try to suppress your misplaced sense of mercy. Some people aren't worth it.
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
You can't deport someone without arresting them first. Deportation is the next logical step, since it sounds like this guy has no defense. There's really not much else they can do to him.
Well, at least that would be true if Japan has the same laws as the US. As an American, I'm not really capable of imagining places that aren't America, so I just pretend that everywhere that isn't America is just more America except people talk funny.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
I'm in the wrong business.
Then everyone stops playing and someone suggests you put on an "adult" DVD and 99% of the time you never see those friends again and the other 1% of the time they start stalking your wife and keep calling you at work. Is that what you want? Well, is it?
This sounds a little too detailed to be hypothetical, to me....
Whoa. Curveball.
How much is that in gold pieces?
"6 million yen ($US 1.3 Million)"
:)
In Tokyo, I spend about 1000-1500 yen on lunch every day. Given this new exchange rate, that means my lunch today will cost between $216.66 and $324.99 USD! Of course, now I'll be rich when I go back home to the states
Funny socialists Europeans.
Shhh. How dare you threaten the myth of the Rugged Individual? These are self-made men! All of your girly infrastructure, legal protections, immunizations, public education, stabilized currency and whatnot just impeded their awesome achievements.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain