詹姆斯·吉尔伯特·夸尔登上周六被捕，原因是涉嫌通过寄送装满灰尘的退货包裹骗取亚马逊近37万美元(€30万美元)。
在什么地方被呼叫“这是欧洲有史以来最大的亚马逊骗局，”(一般来说，这是针对亚马逊的第二大赚钱的金融骗局)，22岁的他会用产品的确切重量将订购物品的箱子装满灰尘，然后登记物品退货。然后，他会收到亚马逊的退款，卖掉原来的商品西班牙语和马略卡日报。
亚马逊的销售政策是当顾客提出索赔并退回包裹时提供退款——根据以下报道，问题是该公司不会立即打开收到的包裹马略卡日报。
退货包裹最终会被放在亚马逊的仓库里，根据福克斯商业。直到亚马逊最近修订的退货政策意味着巴塞罗那的一名员工打开其中一个退货箱，发现里面满是灰尘，欺诈才被发现。
《西班牙报》形容夸尔滕和他的助手一丝不苟。据说夸脱最终营业额如此之大，以至于他最终成立了一家名为“夸脱奇”的有限公司他姓的波特曼图“技术”这个词)
警方开始调查，最终由巴利阿里群岛高级总部技术犯罪股接管。报道称，上周六宣布逮捕克瓦腾时，他已出庭，随后以3000€(约合3300美元)的保释金获释。
这已经不是第一次发现这样一个与跨国电子商务公司有关的计划了。
一对美国夫妇艾琳·菲南和莉亚·珍妮特·菲南在2017年因诈骗亚马逊价值约120万美元的消费电子产品而被控邮件欺诈和洗钱，根据CNBC的说法和新闻稿印第安纳州南区美国检察官办公室。
在建立了数百个虚假的在线身份和亚马逊账户后，金融家购买了近3000种电子产品——从数码相机和游戏机到平板电脑。
在某些情况下，亚马逊的客户服务政策允许客户在归还坏掉的物品之前收到替换品，所以这对夫妇会告诉公司他们订购的产品受损。一旦金融家收到替代产品，他们会在退回商品和出售收到的所有东西之前放弃他们的假账户。
22-YEAR-OLD ALLEGEDLY SCAMMED AMAZON OUT OF $370K WITH RETURN SHIPMENTS FILLED WITH DIRT
James Gilbert Kwarteng was arrested last Saturday for allegedly conning Amazon out of nearly $370,000 (€300,000) by sending return packages filled with dirt.
In what is being called "the biggest Amazon scam ever recorded in Europe," (the second most lucrative financial scam against Amazon in general), the 22-year-old would fill up the ordered items' boxes with dirt with the exact weight of the product, and then register the item for a return. Then he would then receive a refund from Amazon and sell the original item, according to El Español and El Diario de Mallorca.
Amazon's sales policy is to offer a refund when a customer makes a claim and sends back a package — the issue is that the company doesn't immediately open the packages it receives, according to reports outlined by El Diario de Mallorca.
The return packages would end up sitting around in Amazon's warehouses, according to Fox Business. The fraud wasn't detected until Amazon's recently revised returns policy meant an employee in Barcelona opened up one of the returned boxes and discovered it was full of dirt.
The El Español report described Kwarteng and an associate as meticulous. It said that Kwarteng eventually had such a substantial turnover that he ended up founding a limited company, "Kwartech," (a portmanteau of his surname and the word "technology.")
The police began the investigation, which was eventually taken over by the Technological Crimes Unit of the Superior Headquarters of the Balearic Islands. When Kwarteng's arrest was announced last Saturday, he attended court and was later released on bail set at €3,000 (about $3,300), the reports said.
This is not the first time a scheme like this has been uncovered in relation to the multinational e-commerce company.
An American couple, Erin Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan, pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of mail fraud and money laundering after scamming Amazon out of about $1.2 million worth of consumer electronics, according to CNBC and a press release from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana.
After setting up hundreds of false online identities and Amazon accounts, the Finans bought nearly 3,000 electronics — like digital cameras and gaming consoles to tablets.
In some instances, Amazon's customer service policy allows customers to receive a replacement before returning a broken item, so the couple would tell the company that products they had ordered were damaged. Once the Finans had received substitute products, they would abandon their fake account before returning the merchandise and selling everything they had received.
