Singapore forum 'scammer' faces caning and prison Blagger facing flogging By John Oates Published Friday 27th June 2008 15:12?GMT Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, April 17, 2008
A British man faces caning and a prison sentence for allegedly conning members of an IT forum in Singapore.
Members of the VR-Zone forum used "mass ordering" to make savings when buying hardware - they teamed up to make large orders which earned them discounts. But Johnson Henry Plant, a 36-year-old British national, is accused of exploiting this to con $10,000 SGD (