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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."
Anyone capable of making a million whilst still a student is quite smart in my mind. He wasn't slinging hash at norms or anything. I say well done.
Damn straight. This guy is a damn genius or just really lucky. Either way, he made that money fair and square in my opinion (after taxes withheld by the sticky-fingered state of course). And he made it off of dumbasses who have too much of it. Exactly the way it should be. There's one born every minute indeed.
why run from Vincenzo?