Blog #16: Amazon into the money laundering of crime?

An Amazon user in the United States has recently been notified of sales receipts while not receiving a single payment.

Patrick Reames, a book seller on Createspace, the Amazon publishing platform, has received a tax notice from this site. Surprisingly, he earned nearly $ 24,000 and Reames was forced to pay taxes on the virtual money.

Then, Reames looked in the catalog of books he had sold on Amazon and realized that someone was impersonating him. All kinds of novels in the Reames are messy, messy.

"From what I've found, their content is like spam or spam on e-mails including non-start, endless, non-chapter, or paragraphs," Reames shared with KrebsOnSecurity.

The book has a $ 555 par value with cluttered content.
The price tag for the book was posted on October 7, 2017 at about $ 555, after which it was posted across the Amazon Web site in various countries.

Reames argues that someone deliberately purchases these books in cash from stolen credit or debit cards and pays 60% of the profits Amazon has to give to the real author. However, with the price and the number of copies sold were not high, Reames suspected the intervention of other sources.

"It's impossible to make a profit of over $ 20,000 in just 12 weeks." I think someone used my security code through Amazon to evade taxes and money laundering. security because I usually sell books through a third publisher rather than using a personal account, "Reames explained.

According to Thenextweb , Amazon is now publishing books with similar content. For example, when searching for an author's name on Amazon, many Kindle publications have keyword names with original or descriptive titles, ranging from US $ 1 to US $ 2, which is over $ 200 also.

The Amazon has just removed the publication, ebook suspected of fake but has not had any deeper investigation investigation. They refused to share the identity of the person behind the incident.

"I sent a complaint to Amazon but they did not admit the mistake and provided transactional information to investigate." They said it was a policy aimed at protecting Amazon's users, "Reames urged.

The books that follow are the same as the original.
Amazon has a policy of refunding or replacing the product fairly widely. So, fraud, impersonation on Amazon has ever happened. On October 4, 2010, a couple living in Indiana has admitted stealing over $ 1.2 million from Amazon's online sale using a fake identity.

According to The Star Press , Erin Joseph Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan have ordered hundreds of electronic devices such as GoPro and intelligent watches from Amazon with fake identities. Later, they reported to Amazon that the purchased product was damaged or did not receive, which prompted Amazon to return the replacement product.

Next, the rogue duo sells the goods to third parties for profit. According to the court's ruling, the rogue duo must pay more than $ 1.2 million to compensate Amazon for damages.

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