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Amazon could set up some honey pots.. whereby they themselves send out the product. They know its good.

If a customer tries to scam that one... then Amazon has found their scammer.

Also... I'm surprised that Amazon just hands out these sorts of refunds on big ticket items. If I were them I'd require some sort of biometric data for the refund.



But as the story relates, these people tend to set up new accounts each time. There's little risk here involved for the scammer.


When they come asking for their refund.. get some information about them. And then go after them.


Can't they blacklist shipping addresses and/or credit cards? These people open new accounts for a reason; I'd think Amazon could connect and analyze data to discover and mark/blacklist scammers.


Hard to stop with pre-paid debit cards and PO boxes or mail forwarding services. It'd be pretty easy to just open a new one PO/forwarding address and use a different pre paid debit/VISA gift card to keep scamming.


Wouldn't they still need to use the same address ?




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