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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by derefr on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:29PM (#23944080)
> Nobody is going to check inside a "factory sealed" box.

I'm surprised Amazon doesn't X-ray incoming merchandise and then use Computer Vision (i.e. face tagging but for objects) to say whether what's inside the box matches what "should" be in there according to a database of SKU X-ray "fingerprints."

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by ganoushoreilly on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:59PM (#23944376)
It's probably not worth the cost. Even though the numbers would seem large to us, at their scale it's probably not.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by chrischen on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:22PM (#23944611)
If theY ignore fraud the fraudsters will naturally increase their activity.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by londons_explore on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:11PM (#23945012)
A percentage is a percentage...
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by james-skemp on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:24PM (#23946117)
A penny is a percentage of a dollar, a hundred dollars, and a thousand dollars.

That percentage matters less the smaller it gets.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by dillonmckay on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:57PM (#23945337)
So, that is why I thought they put in a security blanket inside the SSD box.

Maybe some rudimentary thermal imagery, and that is the method?

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by icedchai on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:23PM (#23945506)
It's probably more about weight, size, and convenience. SSDs don't weigh much. Neither do blankets and that one probably fits in the SSD box without any hassle.
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