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A Leicester woman has been given a nine-month suspended sentence for selling fake tickets to the Glastonbury festival on an internet auction site. Sara Hambridge, of Goldsmith Way, conned a total of more than �3,000 from victims using the ebay website, Leicester Crown Court heard.
Judge Richard Bray told the 28-year- old on Monday she had taken advantage of a system which made fraud easy.
Sentencing her he said: "It appears easy to commit fraud on the internet."
The judge said Hambridge had only escaped jail due to ill-health following an operation earlier this year.
"There may be certain safeguards that I have not been told about, but that appears to be the case and you took advantage of that," Judge Bray said.
"These trusting people, they get on the internet and they ask for a ticket and they send a cheque without any knowledge of who they are sending it to.
"It is hardly surprising you are getting fraud."
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