The scammers would buy a product off of Amazon, buying it legitimately. They would then raise a return and refund request which would get approved by some “insiders.” They would then keep the refund and sell the product on their local listings
In a bizarre development, e-commerce giant Amazon has fallen victim to online fraudsters, who were able to swindle millions of dollars in either money transfers or products using a simple refund scam
Amazon has taken action against an alleged international ring of thieves involved in a sophisticated refund scam that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars in merchandise from the e-commerce giant.
Amazon filed the lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court in Washington, naming an organization called REKK and almost 30 individuals from various countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Greece, Lithuania, and the Netherlands, as defendants.
