EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3<br/> <br />This device described as a bomb detector was supposed to save lives in places like Iraq.<br/> <br />Buyers including the United Nations paid up to $62, 000 a time for it.<br/> <br />In reality it has no working components and is based on a $20 novelty gadget for finding lost golf balls.<br/> <br />British conman James McCormick made more than $40 million from the scam.<br/> <br />On Friday he was starting a ten-year jail term.<br/> <br />British investigators are welcoming the judge's sentence.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT NIGEL ROCK, AVON AND SOMERSET POLICE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"McCormick practised a callous confidence trick and he was satisfied from the evidence that in all probability McCormick's device contributed to injury and death in Iraq, to name one country."<br/> <br />The fake bomb detectors were also sold to Niger and Georgia.<br/> <br />The judge who sentenced McCormick told him he'd endangered lives for profit
