Your skills can't always pay the bills, especially when your student visa explicitly won't allow them to. Twenty-three year-old Wang Yue Si, a Chinese student studying in Japan, tired of a diet consisting of ramen noodles, cigarettes and beer and decided to make a bit of extra cash on the side by selling "items such as weapons and currency for online games".

He sold items worth over 150,000,000 ($1.3 million), in a clear violation of his student visa, and he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those damn cops. Seems he neglected to consider what it would look like if a student sent over 1 million yen to bank accounts back home in China; the cops quickly caught wind of him and shut him down. Oh, and arrested him.

That is serious money being thrown around there. Which begs the question, what was he studying (or why was he studying at all) if he was making that much cash online? No way I'd be sitting through lectures and exams if I could go home, kick my feet up, login to some MMORPG and make millions. Learnin's for suckers. Luke Plunkett

Chinese student arrested after making 150 million yen selling items for online RPG [Mainichi]

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