PIO biology student faces prison for online fraud

A 22-year-old Indian-American student faces up to five years in prison for his alleged involvement in duping several people of over $49,000 by selling fraudulent event tickets online, a media report said.

Sachin Kumar, a biology and pre-dental student at the University of Tampa in Florida, earned money by selling fake tickets over web sales platform StubHub, using accounts set up in fictitious a name. Kumar, who was 19 at the time of the indiscretion, “has since accepted responsibility for his actions and agreed to pay restitution,” his lawyer Mark O’Brien was quoted as saying by Tampa Bay Times.

In 2013, he tricked people on the Internet sales platform StubHub and collected $49,121 in the process. 

Had all tickets sold, he could have netted $279,949, according to the report.