10-19-2006, 08:08 AM
Quote:One woman from Texas saved her Christmas money for three years to buy diamond stud earrings.
Another man, a former U.S. Marine from Michigan who lost part of his brain and lived on a small pension, thought he was buying a rare coin.
They and dozens of others paid hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for merchandise advertised on eBay - but received nothing.
On Wednesday, a Lehigh Valley, Pa., woman was sentenced in Philadelphia to three years in prison for scamming 75 people nationwide on the popular Internet auction site...
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