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Qingle Liu, 26, was sentenced in the Auckland District Court for five charges of obtaining by deception over her role in a road toll text scam.
When a plumber received a text message telling him he had an unpaid road toll, he logged into what he thought was the NZTA website and entered his credit card details.
The next day, Qingle Liu, a woman with a gambling addiction who had recently flown in from China, took those details and used them to buy seven iPhones from three different retailers in South Auckland.
She then went to a petrol station and bought four $200 Prezzy Cards, cigarettes, a lighter and a bottle of water.
