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  • Six people indicted in Amazon Marketplace bribery scheme to help third-party sellers

    09/20/2020 10:02:18 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 10 replies
    The Verge ^ | Sep 19, 2020, 9:35am EDT | Kim Lyons
    Six people have been indicted by a grand jury in Washington state on charges they bribed Amazon employees to manipulate third-party seller listings on the e-commerce site, including listings for defective or dangerous products, authorities said. Starting in 2017, the people, including two former Amazon employees, paid more than $100,000 to have listings of products and accounts that Amazon had blocked or suspended from its Marketplace, which allows third-party sellers to promote and sell their products, the Department of Justice said. The former employees also provided internal Amazon information that allowed attacks on other third-party sellers and their accounts, including...