teenagers
2003-09-29 | 10:16 a.m.

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A teenage con artist using Internet auction sites tricked people into sending him money to buy cellular phones and instead mailed them bricks, police said.

The 18-year-old boy was arrested this week in the central city of Ciudad Real after duping people all over Spain, including residents of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.

Arrested at post office

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 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.

Teenage con-artists...gotta love em.

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