A Chinese teenager has been sentenced to six years in prison after he exploited a loophole in an online shopping platform’s refund policy to make thousands of fraudulent claims.
The 17-year-old made 11,900 bogus refund applications without returning the goods and made four million yuan (US$570,000) from doing so.
It was recently reported that a court in Shanghai issued a verdict in his case in July 2025.
In March 2024, a cosmetics shopping platform reported to the police that it had become a…