A UK-based scammer who sold fake luxury goods on eBay has been sentenced to four years in jail.

"Gary Bellchambers and six others ran what is reckoned to be the biggest ever such scam between June 2003 and March 2008," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Their fraud was eventually rumbled by a trading standards team at Havering Council, who were put on the trail of the fraudsters by pensioner Christine Manz."

"The council team worked with eBay to identify 96,000 bogus transactions including golf clubs, clothing and forged Qantas business class lounge pass cards," Leyden writs. "The crooks supplied cheap knock-off imitations in place of the promised premium quality kit from US manufacturer Callaway Golf."

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