At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.

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Often this meant learning to exploit the latest laptop, cell phone, fax, Internet and other computer and communications technologies that make possible the mobile economy.

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"You'll see squishy balls flying around the office, " he says, adding that he is a pretty eccentric entrepreneur, often working out of a sport-utility vehicle retrofitted with a three-foot-long desk, two computer screens, a fax machine and shredder.

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It's a fax with fidelity, like Adobe Acrobat portable document files without needing a computer.

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