Liao Peigui was believed to have made around 400,000 yuan from a phony Olympics site, but he was finally convicted of cheating 2 unlucky people, and sentenced to 6 months in jail.

The Haidian District People’s Court of Beijing Municipality passed the jail sentence and a fine of 2,000 yuan (271 U.S. dollars) on Liao Peigui, for making 3,000 yuan (406 U.S. dollars) by goading two netizens into entering fake prize draws on a website he “cloned” from the official one of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG).

Each netizen he cheated was asked to transfer the “award acceptance fee” of 1,500 yuan (203 U.S. dollars) to an account he opened in March to cash their awards, including 28,000 (3,798 U.S. dollars) and two tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

He only managed to trick two people into making the transfer before he was caught.

Via Xinhua