A 22-year-old has been arrested in an alleged scam of the largest internet retailer that totaled nearly $370,000 by sending return packages filled with dirt.
James Gilbert Kwarteng, of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, allegedly swindled Amazon by filling up the ordered items' boxes with dirt and registering with the exact weight of the product. He would then receive a refund from Amazon and sell the original item, according to El Español and El Diario de Mallorca.
He would buy something like an iPhone and, once he received it, he would open it up and keep the phone. Then he went back to Amazon and returned the item. What he sent back was an iPhone package that he filled up with dirt that weighed the same as the iPhone.
When Amazon gets returned packages, there isn't someone that actually opens it up to make sure you sent back what you were supposed to - it's just scanned, weighed, and put on the shelf. Then your money is returned.
The return packages would end up sitting around in Amazon's warehouses where they aren't checked often. The scam wasn't discovered until through a random search where someone opened a box and discovered it was full of dirt.
Amazon's return policy states items shipped from the website, including Amazon Warehouse, can be returned within 30 days of receipt. Refunds are processed in two business days and customers can expect their funds show in their account in three to five business days.
The report states the success of the alleged scam by Kwarteng, who has been released on bail, enabled him to create his own company.
That company sells merchandise online - unused products without a package. Sound familiar?
While James got away with $370K for some time, his haul isn't the biggest. Erin and Leah Finan, from Muncie, Indiana, pulled a similar scheme where they got $1.2 million. That plot was broken up by the Postal Service who said they had sold 2,700 items including Xboxes, smartwatches, tablets, and Macbooks. They were each sentenced to about six years in prison and have to repay the $1.2 million.
Source: fox29.com
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Smart one boy! Are these so-called whites not cheating and stealing us from our natural resources all the time:? Thumb ups my fellow compatriot!!!!!!!!!!
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Dig deep and you will find out his real name is not James Gilbert Kwarteng. Kwarteng is a very traditional name and rarely goes with two foreign names. The crop of this group that use to do that were born in the 1930s. James Gilbert with Kwarteng is an obvious con name and this man have used for fraudulent purposes. Most probably just to acquire a Ghanaian passport
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What an idi0t he is! He was bound to be found out, sooner or later, anyway! And why should he not be called Ghanaian? He is one anyway!
Bad is for African. Good for Asia or Western. Scam headlines befits Ghanaian. If it was positive, I am sure the article would identify him as a Spanish or Spanish resident....
what a shame lazy young man, a disgrace to you and your parents.
That is ALL an average Ghanaians things about, SCAM!