CSI: Amazon.com coming soon to a screen near you
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/25/amazon_counterfeit_crimes_unit/
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The Register has taken a little licence with our CSI acronym, but as Amazon has [1]named its new team the “Counterfeit Crimes Unit”.
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But as the new team is staffed with “former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts” and has been given the job of helping Amazon “to more effectively pursue civil litigation against suspected criminals … and aid law enforcement officials worldwide in criminal actions against counterfeiters”, the CSI moniker seems plausibly applicable.
Amazon says the new unit will join the 8,000 other staff it has working on “fraud and abuse, including counterfeit.” ®
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[1] https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-establishes-new-counterfeit-crime-unit
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2014/11/13/itu_thought_bubble_ponders_mass_mobetracking_to_kill_fake_it/
[3] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8474/security-features-of-connect-for-anthos?td=wptl1956
Re: Hit where it hurts
In my eyes, Amazon has lost reputability. If something was important, or there could be severe consequences if using the product was fake, I would generally buy it from elsewhere, for example ointments.
I still buy shit products from Amazon, but I haven't a clue if they're fake or just, well, shit. When I was a kid everything seemed to have worked much better.
Re: Hit where it hurts
c't magazine seems to run a quarterly report about fake products on Amazon and FleaBay. Lately it has been "2TB" micro-SD cards (8GB cards with manipulated firmware) and similar products that look like the original, only not... SunDisk Evo or Samsong Extreme.
Is it still a counterfeit
if it's labeled/sold as 'fake rolex'?
Re: Is it still a counterfeit
only if labelled "fake counterfeit"
whitewash
Ah yes, counterfeit kit, serious problem for amazon, particularly, when the original brands go after amazon in US courts, eh? What about (yeah, whataboutism), fake reviews, that amazon have allowed for years and have done NOTHING about?
Re: whitewash
Amazon is too busy dealing with real reviews that complain of blatant counterfeiting (by cancelling them) to look at fake reviews. Maybe that's what the 8,000 fraud and abuse staff are doing -- covering up fraud and abuse.
Re: whitewash
Also real reviews for one product on Amazon appear under other products that they consider similar. Also fake products find their way into Amazon warehouses because they are tagged by the seller as equivalent to the real product and fulfilled by Amazon, so you could buy the real product from Amazon themselves or a reputable third party store and still get a fake one. All of these problems are entirely of their own making.
Hit where it hurts
> the job of helping Amazon “to more effectively pursue civil litigation against suspected criminals
So in other words having a reputation as a tat bazaar, filled with low-quality knockoffs, is finally beginning to affect the bottom line.
Or was it that eBay objected to Amazon muscling in on their turf?