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Re:Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merc... by colanderman on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:15PM (#19874754)
Or the merchants are the scammers. That's $20 for probably $5 of raw product. Even if the merchants are paying the scammers a portion, that's a good profit.
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Re:Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merc... by stef25 on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:52AM (#19875924)
You'd need high volume to make it worthwhile and the amount of chargebacks leading to one merchant would make them look pretty suspicious.
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Re:Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merc... by vegiraghav on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:40AM (#19875095)
Or scammers decided to sell socks.
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