$100,000 in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers earn $100 million, DOJ says:
Six people were indicted on allegations of paying over $100,000 in bribes to Amazon employees and contractors as part of a scheme to give third-party sellers unfair advantages on the Amazon marketplace. Among other things, the indictment says that Amazon workers who accepted bribes reinstated sellers whose accounts had been suspended for offering dangerous products, and these workers suspended the seller accounts of fraudulent sellers' competitors.
The US Department of Justice today announced the indictment handed down by a grand jury in the Western District of Washington. The "defendants paid bribes to at least ten different Amazon employees and contractors," the DOJ said. In one case, a 31-year-old defendant named Nishad Kunju "accepted bribes as a seller-support associate in Hyderabad, India, before becoming an outside consultant who recruited and paid bribes to his former colleagues," the DOJ said.
In exchange for bribes, Amazon workers "baselessly and fraudulently conferred tens of millions of dollars of competitive benefits upon hundreds of [third-party] seller accounts that the Defendants purported to represent," the indictment said. The DOJ said that workers "helped reinstate products and merchant accounts that Amazon had suspended or blocked entirely from doing business on the Amazon Marketplace" and that "the fraudulently reinstated products included dietary supplements that had been suspended because of customer-safety complaints, household electronics that had been flagged as flammable, consumer goods that had been flagged for intellectual-property violations, and other goods." These fraudulently reinstated seller accounts included ones Amazon had "suspended for manipulating product reviews to deceive consumers, making improper contact with consumers, and other violations of Amazon's seller policies and codes of conduct," the DOJ said.
(Score: -1, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki 2.0 on Saturday September 19 2020, @11:28AM (8 children)
Fixing Amazon's marketplace is easy. Ban the kikes. Once they're gone, *everyone* else can get along with no problem at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @11:48AM (1 child)
... Are you... Okay?
(Score: 5, Informative) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 19 2020, @01:02PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by crafoo on Saturday September 19 2020, @03:42PM (1 child)
I mean, this joke account is sometimes funny. Does apposing crazy balance itself out? The Taoism of internet trolling?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 19 2020, @03:56PM
Who could think this was sometimes funny? A parent maybe?
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Saturday September 19 2020, @05:57PM (2 children)
kikes own amazon (and most other important things). something you'll never accomplish. i am very sorry your peers and competition are a bunch of chinese trying to sell fake goods so they can afford toilet paper at their house. must be a very depressing life for you. why continue dealing with the daily pain? you know it will never get better. just one day after another. little internet jokes that make teens look edgy in front of their friends are the highlight of your day as an adult. just end it now. why put up with the pain? it'll never end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @03:38AM (1 child)
So says the asshole who felt the need to impersonate creimer for months and photoshop him into porn [cdreimer.com]. You must truly live a worthless life.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 20 2020, @08:06PM
I hate to tell you this, but that was the effort of about 20 people and a bunch of perl and ksh scripts. Time well spent, and well enjoyed by everyone involved. It also got him banned. What do you do for fun?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @03:20AM
Hmmm, your solution is short sighted, and unlikely to work.
First of all, Kikes are notorious for using proxies to do their bidding.
Secondly, even if you kill all the Kikes, crypti-kikes will remain in hiding
Thirdly, Chinks are no better, just less effective.
Best thing is to convince Chunks that Kikes run the US and are their natural enemies. Try to etch out a meager, honest living, reproducing successfully, while the Kikes and Chinks duke it out. Teach your offspring the truth, and tell them to bide their time.
One day it will be the time to do away with all the Kikes, Chinks, and their proxies (BLM, Marxists, Antifa, Trannies, Feminists, Bankers, etc.).
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DavePolaschek on Saturday September 19 2020, @11:57AM (1 child)
I’ve been noticing for the past year that buying stuff from random retailers on eBay seems to have a better chance of successfully getting a good product than buying on Amazon. It really seems like they think they’re too big to need to care about quality or customer service any more.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Saturday September 19 2020, @06:01PM
for 90% of things, walmart's marketplace not only has the same stuff and same prices - it's the same sellers. they have less sellers for each product though - because they actively work on banning counterfeit goods, where amazon sells counterfeits themselves (as in seller: amazon). same no-questions return policy. same free shipping. walmart-branded stuff gets free 2 day shipping without "prime."
(Score: 2, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Saturday September 19 2020, @06:13PM (2 children)
So, here's what I don't get. My neighbor is doing construction, takes down a fence I own, takes down my back gate, workers start moving materials through my yard. Puts up a bunch of boards blocking the walkway on my property to prop up some shit while cement dries. I call the cops 3 times, they are annoyed and tell me to take it to civil court each time. In fact, they even refuse to make a police report for theft of fence and gate, tresspassing, etc. I have to request a sergeant, who tells them to make a police report. they leave it blank. I need to go to civil court. I spend 2k on a layer and all I get is they now replace my gate (with a shittier one) and put up a new fence. So I'm out 2k, he's out the same for his lawyer, and for the next 5 years I spray his door handles with raw chicken water from a supersoaker. He has a couple of little kids, they keep getting sick. Every morning I put his garbage cans in front of his garage door so he has to move them. Those are also covered in chicken water, and sometimes piss. This was over a decade ago, and his kids are all grown up now and I sold that house years ago. But to this day, whenever I drive through that neighborhoods, I put his garbage cans in front of his garage door.
Why is it that while law enforcement is doing nothing for me, they are spending money to fix amazon's corrupt employee issues? Because I don't earn enough to pay for that with all the raw chicken I've had to buy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @06:13PM (1 child)
If your story is true, then you are my hero. I had shitty situation when I rented in multifamily home, so I sympathize. I elected to move away rather then fight clowns with clown tactics, but I appluad those who choose to wrestle with the pigs.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 20 2020, @08:02PM
I owned the 3 story house - lived on one floor and rented out 2. Not that easy to move away.
I wasn't really fighting the guy. There were a couple of things that were "fighting" I guess - Whenever a disposable smoke detector would start going bad and beeping every hour, I'd hide them in the guy's front yard. If I finished a water bottle I'd toss it over the fence. Whenever someone was smoking at my place, his backyard was the ash tray. But the chicken water was not a fight. It's something he'll never know about, and it probably effected his little kids more than it did him. A very shitty and unfair thing that I did, and I feel great about it.
(Score: 1) by klondike0 on Saturday September 19 2020, @11:54PM
What, did the indicted forget to make some campaign contributions with their ill-gotten gains?