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AP - A Spanish teenage con artist using internet auction sites tricked people into sending him money to buy mobile phones and instead mailed them bricks, police said.
The 18-year-old was arrested this week in the central city of Ciudad Real after duping people all over Spain, including residents of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
The suspect had his victims mail postal money orders to a house in Ciudad Real that he knew was vacant.
He collected them at the mailbox there, and was arrested on Tuesday at a post office while trying to cash some of the money orders, police said.
The police said the teen fooled many people but didn't say how many.
The youth's name was not released.
©AAP 2003
The 18-year-old was arrested this week in the central city of Ciudad Real after duping people all over Spain, including residents of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
The suspect had his victims mail postal money orders to a house in Ciudad Real that he knew was vacant.
He collected them at the mailbox there, and was arrested on Tuesday at a post office while trying to cash some of the money orders, police said.
The police said the teen fooled many people but didn't say how many.
The youth's name was not released.
©AAP 2003
