Once the auction closes, the seller and buyer communicate arrangements around payment and postage or pick-up of the items.
Moke-Amotawa monitored the auctions of Apple iPhones and when the auctions closed, would contact people interested in the auction via text message.
Once in contact with those people, Moke-Amotawa would pose as the seller of the iPhone and tell the complainants the sale had fallen through with the winner of the auction.
Moke-Amotawa would settle on a price - between $400 and $1000 - for the iPhones and provide her bank account number.
The complainants transferred funds into Moke-Amotawa's account but she would then stop contact with them and keep the money. She carried out such transactions on 24 occasions.
When spoken to by police, Moke-Amotawa admitted what she had done and said family problems had contributed to her offending.
Her lawyer, Wiremu Te Are, told the court Moke-Amotawa was working and had offered to pay reparation in full at $100 a week. Mr Te Are described Moke-Amotawa's offending as opportunistic.
Judge Cooper said Moke-Amotawa had no previous convictions and her offending was out of character. But he described the offending as premeditated and calculated.
Judge Cooper said a prison term or home detention would make Moke-Amotawa's employment prospects difficult and impact on her ability to pay back the money to the complainants.
