Legal Opinion
United States v. Aslan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 12, 2011No. 08-1486, 08-1678, 08-3789, 08-4136PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Confidence games are as old as a pig in a poke, but the internet has changed the scale of the con to allow schemers to reach effortlessly across oceans into the pockets of their trusting marks. 1 The defendants here ran a con for two and a half years using the most efficient “poke” that technology has to offer: eBay. The confidence men (and women) in this scheme, many of them based in Romania, posed as sellers of goods on eBay and other internet auction sites. They accepted payment via Western Union, collected by co-schemers at various locations in the Chicago area. The…
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