The world of arts and equipment used to perform artistic activities such as photography, as with any other material and/or physically more palpable, unfortunately is not sure of the tricks and measures that proliferate all over the planet for, in some way. , profit criminally. Even by causing serious people to end up missing the opportunity to be legal sponsors of the market by doing things that harm industry and tech consumers.
It is exactly this scenario that was formed in the unfortunate story we will tell today about a couple from the US region of Indiana who, in the midst of a fraud system established exclusively to take advantage of the giant’s policy of selling various Amazon products online, managed to cause million-dollar damage to the American company.
- Those accused of developing the system (Leah Joseph Finan and Erin Joseph Finan) even claimed to be to blame in the indictment prepared by the U.
- S.
- Department of Justice.
- Saying they were operating as follows: they bought various products such as cameras and other technological devices.
- And claimed to be broken and have other flaws.
- In order to “compensate for any inconvenience”.
- They received new free equipment.
Realizing that they could be caught by Amazon’s security system for the number of extremely similar complaints, a situation that could be detected as an attempt to defraud the system, they began creating multiple fake consumer accounts so that they could continue shopping and take advantage of the same resource to continue earning compensation on cameras and many other devices completely free.
The joint investigation of the multinational’s internal online sales assessment service, the U. S. Postal Inspection Service and also the Indiana State Police, where the fraudulent partner lives, arrived at Danijel Glumac, the man who claimed to have purchased all the equipment accumulated by the Finns, investing about $1. 2 million (about R$3. 8 million).
According to information gathered so far in the investigations, the trial will take place on November 9 and, in addition to fines of $500 and penalties of up to 20 years in prison, the couple still needs to pay for the Amazon itself. only $1. 2 million with your criminal actions.