Home› Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

Interesting read of a card scammer

PittfanPittfan Posts: 476
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum
Thought you all might find this enjoyable.

Link

Comments

  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Amazing they went after her with only about $3,000 in fraud. Nice to hear though.

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    Amazing they even went after her at all.
  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭
    Too bad police don't follow this lead and prosecute more scammers like this....
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, Im suprised they went after her as well. But 3K is grand larceny, maybe thats why.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Crazy part is they likely spent $5-6,000 to prosecute her and investigate the case, and will spend around $100,000 plus to keep her in jail. Not sure it is even wise to go after the small fish when the pond is full of big fish.

    Too bad this didn't get national news coverage...then it might have been worth the dollar spent.

    What the lady did was totally wrong and she should be punished for it. However, spending this type of money for a non-violent crime when our prisons are overcrowded seems more like punishment to us.

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    What they need to do is fine the holy crap out of her and put her on parole to make sure she has a job and is working to pay everybody back and pay her fine. The threat of jail is enough of a deterrent, and society actually gets something out of it other than the satisfaction of seeing her locked up.

    It's not like this snippet in the back of a local newspaper is gonna put the fear of the big guy upstairs in the rest of the ebay scammers. The only way that'll happen is if they start a task force and do a big sweep of all the ebay scammers for a year or two.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,317 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good!


    Woman sentenced in baseball, football card scams

    By Aaron Lee
    alee@newsadvance.com
    August 8, 2007

    An Evington woman who scammed sports memorabilia collectors out of roughly $3,000 was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison.
    Authorities said Rachel Ann Trent, 30, put baseball and football cards up for bid on online auction giant eBay - saying they were rare. But when the cards were purchased, Trent would send the buyer a worthless or different card in its place - or sometimes no card at all - authorities said.

    The Central Virginia Computer Crimes Task Force - a program run by local, state and federal agencies - arrested Trent after receiving complaints about the scam from victims in Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

    Judge Samuel Johnson accepted Trent's plea in Campbell County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

    Trent pleaded guilty in 2005 to running a similar scam and was sentenced to one year and three months in prison.

    Trent was on probation when she was arrested in March for the most recent scams.
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    They probably wouldn't have chased it as far if she wasn't already on paper. She did the same thing before, got caught, got let out on probation, and went right back to it.

    image
  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Crazy part is they likely spent $5-6,000 to prosecute her and investigate the case, and will spend around $100,000 plus to keep her in jail. Not sure it is even wise to go after the small fish when the pond is full of big fish.

    Too bad this didn't get national news coverage...then it might have been worth the dollar spent.

    What the lady did was totally wrong and she should be punished for it. However, spending this type of money for a non-violent crime when our prisons are overcrowded seems more like punishment to us.

    Mark >>







    This post is one of the most bizarre things I have ever read.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭


    << <i>What the lady did was totally wrong and she should be punished for it. However, spending this type of money for a non-violent crime when our prisons are overcrowded seems more like punishment to us. >>



    So, do you give a pass to all the small-time crooks then?
    My Giants collection want list

    WTB: 2001 Leaf Rookies & Stars Longevity: Ryan Jensen #/25
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    The key here is the part about her running a "Similar" scam the year before. If she had gotten a punishment the first time, she may not have pulled off this one.


    Fine her the amount of her prison stay, the court costs, and reimburse the ones she screwed over.






    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • metalmikemetalmike Posts: 2,152 ✭✭
    Clovis Police Department Chief of Police Jim Zulim 1233 Fifth St Clovis, California 93612 (559)324-2400 County: Fresno
    USN 1977-1987 * ALL cards are commons unless auto'd. Buying Britneycards. NWO for life.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    "This post is one of the most bizarre things I have ever read."

    I guess you either do not read much or do not understand our prison system problems (funding, lack of space).

    "So, do you give a pass to all the small-time crooks then?"

    No, and don't ignore the part where I said she should be punished. I would rather see her get more in the line of what CDsNuts suggested, heavy fines and probation. Or perhaps send her to a work release prison, where the inmates have to work and pay for the right to be there. Maybe, give her a home bracelet and lock her in her house. There are other options then what was given.

    We have a prison overcrowding problems, and we do not have the jail cells to lock up everyone committing crimes. Sending her to jail might let some violent crime offender out of jail. I don't know about other states but here in Kansas the top 10 most wanted are almost never violent crimes.

    An option to fix this might be to raise taxes and build more prisons....anyone for more taxes? We tried that here but everyone was like, no more taxes and not in my neighborhood. Until there is some solution with crowded jails, I would rather see violent crime offenders locked up then non-violent.

    The questions here is, would you rather see her locked up or a violent crime person, and is this a good use of $100,000?

    Mind you, her sentence is not that much lighter then if she had killed someone (~6 years). So yes, I do think the verdict was harsh.


    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    I have the solution. It is simple, quick, effective, cost efficient, and helps educate the public about the dangers of crime.

    image

  • roastedcatroastedcat Posts: 892
    This is great news!

    I had taken action myself and did the samething 8 years ago who scammed me out of $3500. filed small claims court, I won and guy never coughed up the money, and next thing you know 6 years later trys and contact me asking me to remove the small claims court order, his credit has been flagged and can't buy a house. He was getting married,

    now he's broke and has no wife or a life... image

    That scumbag got lucky, he should have went to prison.
    Jery's T206 set: Looking for PSA 6's & 7's!
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    real simple... when you steal you lose some fingers... this is her second offense, got off both hands. awful hard to type image will make it tougher to do some ebay scams. and yes, im serious. no need for prison time.
  • rise2itrise2it Posts: 160

    "spending this type of money for a non-violent crime when our prisons are overcrowded seems more like punishment to us."

    I agree - they should've cut off one of her hands the first time, and the other hand the second time she was convicted.

    THAT would be an example to others....

    Collecting my sports heroes, Roger Staubach and Kirby Puckett.
Sign In or Register to comment.