EBAY SCAM "PIRATE SKY BOX MAN JAILED"

EBAY SCAM

 

PIRATE

SKY BOX MAN JAILED

Story written by Jeremy Stenton-Jones   Google+

Ronald Bladen, 52, of Park Lane Avenue, in Madeley, UK allegedly made £3,000 from selling 22 fake sky boxes between March 1 and November 8th a court heard.

But his Ebay scam was discovered by security officials at BSkyB who carried out an intense undercover investigation over several months.

 

He put his hands up and fully admitted to selling the fake sky set top boxes, which were pre-loaded with illegal software, when he appeared before the Telford Magistrates Court.

Mr Bladen was sentenced to eight weeks in jail for breaching a suspended sentence and four weeks for satellite tv fraud by false representation, to run consecutively.

He was also given two weeks in prison for failure to surrender to run concurrently.

Mrs Becky Jones, prosecuting, said that Bladen was arrested after BSkyB officials alerted police in Madeley.

Officers who searched the house found a number of fake set top boxes and evidence that led to the successful conviction.

Mr James Wade, who was acting for Bladen, said that his client had been in need of money and had only actually made £500 using the Ebay platform evidence showed that he had been selling the boxes to clients as far away as Spain & France.

Meanwhile in Germany....

NAGRA & SKY DEUTSCHLAND CELEBRATE COURT VICTORY 

The central office for preventing and detecting communication and technology crime of the Verden prosecuters office praised the investigating team that allowed a succesful prosecution and prosecution of the card cloning criminal. 

The 51 year old German man of no known address pleased guilty to charges of SKY CARD SHARING that violates the German commercial computer fraud Laws. It was said that the defendent had been working with a network of re-sellers al across Germany and was know under his nickname "MRCHEEKYCHOPS" 

The defendant was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment without parole for commercial computer fraud carried out in partnership with others. The ruling has been appealed. And he is expected to serve nine months behind bars before being considered for home detention that shall see the man electronically tagged.

The Court heard that the man was a devoted member of a German Folk Music Band and was dreading not being able to perform whilst locked away in Prison.

Sky and NAGRA have been working on the case for several years gathering surveillance and information, investigators suspected that the suspect had been selling his services on the internet for some time. 

Dr Andreas Rudloff who is responsible for SKY TV Security in Germany said that we finally caught up with the defendant as he waited for a flight to Valencia and that the information and communication crimes statutes had allowed them to prosecute to the full extent of German Law.