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Some People Just Don't Like Losing

Posted By: Chris Bray
Date: Sunday, 21 August 2011, at 10:01 p.m.

From the Greek Reporter:

"A 48-year-old man who could not accept defeat at online backgammon was accused of threatening and insulting a 33-year-old online website administrator. The man was arrested by the Police Bureau of Economic and Cyber Crime, following the administrator’s complaint.

The 33-year-old man, executive officer of a private company that manages the Greek version of an international social networking website, complained to the sub-directorate of Cyber ​​Crime that he was receiving messages via e-mail, with threatening and abusive content regarding the management of an online game, for which he was responsible.

The offender was sending anonymous messages in which he expressed threats to the administrator’s and his family’s lives, while serious and extensive property damage was caused at the company’s offices, in the form of threats. The 48-year-old man was continuously losing in the online backgammon game, and believed he was being cheated and that the game was fixed.

To identify the offender, a digital analysis of his electronic traces was carried out, which resulted from the investigation of his electronic messages, following the opinion of the Advocate of the Supreme Court. In an investigation conducted at the suspect’s home in Alimos, the police, in the presence of the Prosecutorial Officer, identified that the 48-year-old man was the sender of the anonymous threatening messages.

A laptop computer was found and seized in the house, which will be sent to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for the necessary laboratory tests. The file was submitted to the Prosecutor of Athens."