Amazon shopper bought Apple, Axus, Fuji products, returned cheap items. $290K fraud

[Demovictory9]

Amazon shopper faces up to 20 years in jail for $290,000 fraud. Prosecutors say he bought Apple, Asus, and Fuji products, then mailed cheaper items as returns.

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US attorneys filed charges against Hamrick in September, saying he'd engaged in about 300 fraudulent transactions with Amazon. That included about 270 product returns - some 250 of which were "materially different in value" - that amounted to more than $290,000 in total fraud, said the charging document and another that detailed several transactions as part of Hamrick's plea agreement.

Many of the transactions followed a simple pattern, prosecutors said: Hamrick would order an expensive item, initiate a return, then mail a similar - but less valuable - item. Sometimes he'd also sell the expensive item, netting him both the return and the resale value, prosecutors said.

In August 2019, for example, Hamrick ordered an Apple iMac Pro for $4,256.85, the US attorneys said. After about two weeks, Hamrick started the return process with Amazon, which then issued a refund.

"Instead of returning the high-end iMac Pro, Hamrick returned a much older, less valuable non-Pro model with a completely different serial number," said a court document filed by Maria K. Vento, an assistant US attorney.

A week before Hamrick initiated his Amazon return, he sold an iMac Pro on eBay, Vento said.

Prosecutors said the items Hamrick ordered included a Jura GIGA W3 Professional coffee machine for $3,536.46; an Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop for $2,776.52; and a Fuji Spray system for $1,227.31. Each time, he returned a lower-value item or older model, prosecutors said.

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[PoliticAverse]

1. "Jura GIGA W3 Professional coffee machine for $3,536.46"

Some people apparently really really love coffee.

[Demovictory9]

2. its made for businesses

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3. $3,499.99 is as high as I'll go for amateur coffee.

[Historic NY]

4. It took almost 6 year for a prosecution?

what was the FBI doing since 2015 delivering the packages.

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. One of our company's largest sales channels is Amazon

The returns are 99% legit but that 1% is really nuts. $100 items that we sell, Amazon accepts a return item which is only used and torn USB cable. Literally looked like a dog chewed it in half. We sell electronics but we got a pair of used socks back that was supposed to be an electronic RF analyzer. I just know one time an adult toy is going to be that box