$ 1.2 million swindled Amazon by taking advantage of its return policy

Amazon started as a small online store dedicated to selling books, however, over the years, it has become the global online sales giant. Much of its success is due not only to speedy shipping or low prices, but also to a return policy based on customer trust. However, profiteers and scoundrels are everywhere, and some of them are also Amazon customers.

Double the products for the price of one

To be exact, we refer to the case of a couple from Indiana (United States) who, taking advantage of Amazon's return policy, has managed to defraud the company of $ 1.2 million. But they have been hunted.

The Finan, a couple made up of Leah Finan and Erin Finan, 37 and 38 years old respectively, created hundreds of fake identities that they used to make hundreds of purchases on Amazon. Basically these purchases consisted of valuable products, that is, electronic devices such as GoPro sports and action cameras, Samsung smart watches, some Microsoft Surface tablets, game consoles… That is, products that could later be resold and get a good amount of money.

Taking advantage of the few requirements that Amazon requires when returning a product, either because it has been damaged, because it has a defect or simply because you have thought better of it, this couple opened a claim indicating the defective receipt of the product in question. Thus, the company requests that you send the product back while replacing it with a new one. This action was used by the Finan who, realizing that Amazon does not wait to receive the defective product to send you the new one, They did not return it. Later, with the help of an accomplice, Danijel Glumac, they sold them in New York at a lower price than the official one.

This is how this trio has defrauded $ 1.2 million from Amazon and now faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, in addition to having to return the value of the stolen and face the corresponding fine and compensation. The most curious thing is that it was not Amazon who discovered the cake, but the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), the United States Postal Service and the Indiana Police, since they had previously been denounced for fraud and money laundering using the Postal Service.