Sky Brady sentenced to defrauding customers after they’d paid for guitars online

An online scammer who would pretend to sell guitars and concert tickets to unsuspecting victims to fuel his drug habit has faced court.

Sky Brady sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for fraud.

A man who conned more than $33,000 out of people hoping to buy guitars and concert tickets online has been sent to jail.

Sky Brady, 38, was sentenced in Maroochydore Magistrates court on Thursday for 15 counts of fraud offences.

The court heard Brady would advertise online he was selling a guitar, concert tickets or other items over a 17-month period between October 2018 to March 2020.

Police prosecutor Senior Constable Mark Burrell said Brady would engage with the victims online, give them bank account details to send the money through to and then block all contact with them after not sending the product they’d paid for.

He said Brady had found a crime “bearing fruit” that resulted in him collecting $33,050 in total over the 17-month period to pay for his methylamphetamine habit.

Since the charges were laid against Brady in October 2020, he has failed to pay back the remaining $26,650 owed in restitution.

The court heard PayPal had refunded some of the victims the remaining $6,400.

Despite his lawyer arguing Brady, who had now obtained a job, could start paying back the money owed to the victims, he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

He will be eligible for parole on September 12, 2020.

Originally published as Sky Brady sentenced to defrauding customers after they’d paid for guitars online