The more our economic life moves online, the more we must ensure the integrity of our digital markets, which my office is committed to doing,” Audrey Strauss, the acting US attorney for Manhattan, said in a press release. “The use of complex technology did not hide the simple fact that the defendants were bilking Amazon for goods they never provided.
“Open account under dummy names and they can go look for no one,” Yoel allegedly wrote on WhatsApp in the fall of 2018. Once Amazon detected the fraud and shut down their accounts, the brothers allegedly tried to open new ones using fake names, different email addresses, and VPNs to obscure their identity. Prosecutors say the brothers frequently shipped and charged Amazon for more than 10,000 units of an item when it had requested fewer than 100. In response, according to the indictment, the defendants sent 927 plastic beard trimmers costing $289.79 each, using the ASIN for the perfume. In another instance, Amazon ordered a single bottle of designer perfume for $289.78.
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The defendants allegedly shipped 7,000 toothbrushes costing $94.03 each, using the code for the disinfectant spray, and later billed Amazon for over $650,000. In one instance, Amazon ordered 12 canisters of disinfectant spray costing $94.03. Vendors have the ability to change listings, to make sure things like product descriptions are accurate.Īccording to the indictment, the brothers swapped ASINs for items Amazon ordered to send large quantities of different goods instead. They are part of an item’s listing in Amazon’s catalog. On Amazon, every product is given a unique identifier, a string of numbers called an Amazon Standard Identification Number. In one message from May 2018, the indictment says, Yoel wrote that he was “so in the mood to fuck Amazon.”Īll four brothers, who were arrested Wednesday, are accused of using wholesale businesses they opened to engage in a scam called “overshipping.” It works by intentionally sending a company more goods than it ordered and billing for it. The defendants allegedly discussed their gimmick openly in a family WhatsApp group. Federal prosecutors accused Yoel Abraham, Heshl Abraham, Zishe Abraham, and Shmuel Abraham of invoicing Amazon for a large number of products the company never ordered. Over the course of two years, four brothers in New York allegedly swindled Amazon out of at least $19 million using thousands of $94 toothbrushes and other expensive goods, according to a Department of Justice indictment unsealed Wednesday.
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