Liao Peigui was convicted of operating a phony official Olympics website and taking money under false pretenses was sentenced to six months in prison in Beijing.

The Haidian District People’s Court of Beijing Municipality passed the jail sentence and a fine of RMB2,000 ($271) for defrauding two netizens into entering fake prize draws on a website he ‘cloned’ from the official BOCOG site.

His method was to get entrants to transfer and ‘award acceptance fee’ of RMB1,500 ($203) to an account he opened in March. For this they would get prizes which included RMB28,000($3,798) and two tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Liao Peigui had worked as a computer engineer in south China’s Hainan Province.

China launched a six-month campaign last April targeting online pornography, fraud and theft.
Source: Windows of China