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 auction fell 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.
Police are seeking reparation of $15,231.80.
Mrs Paterson remanded Moke-Amotawa on bail for sentencing before a judge in the Rotorua District Court on July 23.
