A 22 year old in Spain scammed Amazon out of $370,000 by returning boxes full of dirt
Amazon refunds returns based on one thing which is the weight of the box when it comes back
If the weight matches the original item, the refund goes through automatically and nobody opens the box
James Gilbert Kwarteng figured this out in 2018
The way it worked was almost stupidly easy
He would order an expensive item on Amazon, a phone, a laptop, a piece of electronics, anything over a few hundred dollars
When it arrived he would weigh it to the gram, fill the original box with the exact same weight in dirt and ship it back as a return
Amazon's warehouse would log the box at the correct weight, process the return and refund him in full
He would then sell the real item online and pocket both the refund and the resale price
He did it so many times that he eventually registered a limited company for the operation and called it "Kwartech."
A portmanteau of his surname and the word technology, run out of his apartment in Palma de Mallorca
The scheme ran for over a year and pulled in roughly €300,000, about $370,000 at the time
Returned boxes full of dirt were piling up in Amazon warehouses across Europe because nobody was opening them
He only got caught because Amazon changed their return policy and started spot checking packages
An employee in Barcelona opened one of his boxes at random, found it full of soil and flagged it to the Technological Crimes Unit of the Balearic Islands
Police traced the returns back to Kwartech and arrested him in August 2019
The case was called the biggest Amazon scam ever recorded in Europe at the time
He showed up to court, posted €3,000 bail and walked out the same day
Others took the same playbook and got more sophisticated with it
A guy in North Carolina named Hudson Hamrick pulled $290,000 out of Amazon over four years by ordering expensive electronics, guitars and tools and returning cheaper broken versions of the same items in the original boxes
An international ring called REKK openly advertised their services on Reddit and Discord, charging a fee to get fake refunds approved on anything you ordered
They pulled in millions by bribing Amazon employees to push the refunds through manually before anyone could inspect the package
Amazon spent $1.2 billion in 2022 alone trying to fight return fraud and hired 15,000 people to work on it full time
The craziest part is that the original scam still works today
Weigh the item, match the weight, ship back something worthless, collect the refund
Amazon processes millions of returns a week and the machine checking the box at the warehouse only knows one thing about what's inside it
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I think Mikel Arteta will continue to start Viktor Gyökeres ahead of Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, especially in the Premier League and also in the Champions League, particularly against big clubs.....
With Viktor Gyökeres, the Arsenal team creates more expected goals (xG) when he’s on the pitch than when he is not.....
Viktor Gyökeres creates space for others by stretching the opposition center-backs, pinning them down, and increasing the team’s overall chance quality against their opposition....
The team performs better with him. Viktor Gyökeres also has good records when he starts for Arsenal;;;; so far so good, with him starting, the team has won 16 matches, drawn 1, and lost 1, which was that unfortunate loss to Liverpool at Anfield!!!!
Ukraine is in talks with Gamuda Bhd and is inviting other Malaysian construction firms to take part in post-war reconstruction projects valued at a minimum of US$500 billion.
Around 286 bridges, extensive road networks, and heavily damaged cities such as Bakhmut are among the infrastructure that require rebuilding.
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Another day, another hearing, another appeal but still the same old outcome; a loss for FSV Mainz 05.
Regular defeats on the football pitch clearly aren’t enough for the board of the club so they keep coming back for more losses in the German courts !
I am grateful to the German courts for serving justice and seeing through the baseless and nonsensical claims of the club.
Let me be clear, the statement from the serial losers FSV Mainz 05 following their latest defeat is as deluded as their entire dealings and proceedings against me. I have never had, nor will I ever have, any consensus with any person or organisation which seeks to silence those standing for justice and humanity. My values can never align with any organisation whose values and convictions are to blindly stand with those accused of flagrantly breaching International law and perpetrating genocide.
No one is above the law.
Let this latest victory send a loud and clear to message to the warmongers, their accomplices and the deluded board members of FSV Mainz 05; you cannot, and will not, silence the voices of the Palestinians and their advocates. Viva Palestina !!!
Malaysia's medical inflation is expected to jump by 16% next year due to the brain drain of healthcare professionals and rising drug prices.
MBSB Research says the labour shortage has driven up hiring and retention costs in the private healthcare sector, reflecting global trends in which labour accounts for over half of hospital expenses, reports NST.
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Set-piece masterminds ♟️🧠
The Reds have now scored 40 times from set-pieces in the @premierleague since the start of last season - the best tally of any team in the division ✨