Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt

fox business ^ | 2 Aug 2019 | Henry Fernandez

[DUMBGRUNT]

... swindled Amazon by filling up the ordered items’ boxes with dirt and registering with the exact weight of the product. He would then receive a refund from Amazon and sell the original item

The return packages would end up sitting around in Amazon’s warehouses where they aren’t checked often.

The report states the success of the alleged scam by Kwarteng, who has been released on bail, enabled him to create his own company.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Will Bezos now own this jamokes startup?

[EEGator]

Creative...

[TigersEye]

Kwarteng? Was he previously a Klingon on STNG?

[wally_bert]

Fascinating.

[DannyTN]

That was a dirty trick.

[Moonman62]

The report states the success of the alleged scam by Kwarteng, who has been released on bail, enabled him to create his own company.

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Somehow “success” and “bail” don’t go together well in the same sentence.

[EEGator]

[semaj]

Looks like the kid has the dirt on Amazon.

[Sparticus]

This kid is destined to be a U.S. senator.

[LegendHasIt]

Seems to me like either Amazon’s Returns department is set up very stupidly, or he had inside help.

[texas_mrs]

Paydirt.

[Flick Lives]

...swindled Amazon by filling up the ordered items’ boxes with dirt and registering with the exact weight of the product.

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Something sounds fishy about this story. I’ve returned various items to amazon. I typically get two notices. One almost immediately when the package is received for return at UPS, etc. The second follows later as a refund for the particular item. I presume this is when the package is actually opened to confirm I returned what was stated in the return authorization.

That the package weighs the same is irrelevant. I might get a package with 5 items, but return only one item. The return will e lighter.

[HighSierra5]

Soilyent green.

[pepsi_junkie]

Amazon sells everything. I watched a couple of videos by a guy who buys giant pallets of stuff amazon get back as returns. the people in their return department don't know what they are supposed to be getting back. They don't even sort it, some of it can be very valuable and some is pure junk. A lot of time they guy would open a box for something valuable and find an old broken one in it, the returner obviously kept the expensive new one and nobody at Amazon knows. But apparently they do look occasionally and if they spot this from someone a couple of times they get banned.

But dirt? How could you now know it was not the real item?

[Paladin2]

"But dirt? "

How do you know that it was not ore high in Lithium?

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, I’ve seen some of those videos too.

[OrangeHoof]

A friend of mine received several shipments of dirt a year ago. The dirt was allegedly on the pitcher’s mound at Dodger Stadium when the Astros won the 2017 World Series. Part of me wonders if this wasn’t a scam.

[Churchillspirit]

That is why we must check all returns at the store where I work.

Cheaters are everywhere.

[gswilder]

Something like this happened to me about 3 months ago. Ordered some VR goggles, and the box was stuffed with rocks. Returned it and ordered a replacement. This time, I got an old, used, out of date pair of goggles. So I contacted Amazon and said you are getting scammed by people returning crap.

[jimtorr]

I have a tale just the opposite of yours. Ordered some military surplus MREs for a camping trip, so we wouldn’t have to cook if we didn’t want to.

The shipping info said it would be rations packed in 2016 and inspected in 2019. What I go instead were rations whose boxes were marked: Date Packed 9/12/2018.

I’m wondering if it is legal for DOD to release military MRE’s that are less than a year old. Perhaps some contractor is scamming the army?