An internet fraudster who ran a scam through the auction website eBay has been told he faces jail.

Judge Peter Benson told Glen Dunnington that it was likely he will be sent to prison after a jury convicted him of five counts of obtaining property by deception.

Bradford Crown Court had heard how Dunnington, 41, would advertise expensive electrical goods on the auction site, but once he received payment for the items he did not deliver the goods.

The jury had been told that Dunnington had made more than £5,000 from the scam and had defrauded at least five different eBay users.

Gordon Lakin, prosecuting, read statements from Dunnington's victims who described how they checked his feedback on eBay which had all been positive.

They said that after they won their auctions, Dunnington contacted them via e-mail giving bank details in his name and his address.

But once they had handed over the money neither heard from Dunnington again.

The two men, who had paid £1,288 and £638 for a laptop computer and a projector, contacted police when Dunning-ton did not reply to their e-mails.

When he was arrested at his house in Harewood Street, Barkerend, Bradford, he denied that he had been involved in the fraud.

He told the jury that he had gone into business with a man he had met in the pub whom he knew only as 'Podgy' and said that this man had carried on trading in Dunnington's name after the partnership had ended.

He added that he was a victim as well because other companies were chasing him for money as a result of Podgy's shady dealings.

But Judge Benson told him he was not surprised that the jury had found him guilty.

"This was a calculated fraud on users of the internet and it's likely that you will get a custodial sentence," he said.

The case was adjourned for a pre-sentence report.

Dunnington, who has previous convictions for handling stolen goods, will be sentenced on Friday, November 19, at Leeds Crown Court.

Customers on eBay can verify a seller's reputation by reading feedback about the seller left by other purchasers.

Many customers use a system called Pay Pal which allows funds to be transferred without bank details being shared between the two parties. Sellers sign up to a contract when offering goods for sale on the website. If they break that contract they can be suspended from the site.