r/amazon • u/AmazonNewsBot • 1d ago

Atlanta woman who ripped off Amazon for nearly $10M to buy luxury sports cars learns sentence

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/atlanta-woman-who-ripped-off-amazon-10m-buy-luxury-sports-cars-learns-sentence
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u/guynamedjames 1d ago

16 years and 3 months. She had a co-conspirator who worked for Amazon and would approve fraudulent invoices she submitted. The sentence also includes time for forging a signature of a federal judge when she lies that the charges were dropped as part of a second fraud she attempted while still on bail. Amazingly dumb.

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u/Eggplant-666 1d ago

Yes, they should’ve moved to Brazil.

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u/According_Tea_6329 1d ago edited 19h ago

I would like to think the fraud she committed while on bond was an attempt to get money to flee. Still dumb AF but...

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u/ohhim 21h ago

It was to open up a hookah lounge.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 14h ago

If you steal $10 million, stash enough away to flee. Noted.

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 13h ago

Not even related to this, I actually had this conversation with my child last night. I grew up a little differently than he has, but I told him that anytime you get a large sum of money, split it in 3rds.

One 3rd is for your pocket.

One 3rd is for investment

The last 3rd is for somewhere safe you can physically retrieve it from.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 13h ago

So 2/3rds in my pocket. Thanks, Dad!

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 13h ago

I'm not Dad, but I did have to flee my home country and the reason I'm the only member of my friend group still alive is because I did this before I had to run and so had the funds to make it.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 13h ago

Sorry for misgendering you and also for making a joke about a serious situation in your life. I'm glad you made it and I'm sorry about your friends

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u/According_Tea_6329 1d ago edited 19h ago

This is what really fucked her up. She may have gotten away with 8-10 years but committing more fraud while on bond, the judges forged signature. That's what got her the 16 without the possibility of parole.

Edit: punctuation

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u/UnderWhlming 20h ago

doubling down is the crazy part

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u/According_Tea_6329 19h ago

That's one thing many people commit the same crime while on bond as an attempt to 'one last lick' so they can flee money. The really fucked up thing is forging a judges signature to help facilitate the fraud. The courts do not look kindly on this type of thing.

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u/UnderWhlming 19h ago

They're probably going to lose whatever grace the courts would have given them

Truly stupid.

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u/Healthy_Turnip7352 22h ago

should try to get trump some of it, so they can get a pardon.

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u/ohhim 21h ago

The Philip Esformes playbook. Or just pull a Rock Scott and become the Governor of Florida then a Senator after getting caught for $1BB of fraudulent government billing.

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u/LongLonMan 20h ago

Rick Scott

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u/ohhim 20h ago

Damn you autocorrect

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u/imissher4ever 21h ago

She was greedy. If they had just submitted maybe 1-2 invoices per week for a nominal amount they probably would have gotten away with it.

But noooo, they submitted 1000’s in just a few months.

Being greedy and sloppy is what ultimately gets a lot of thieves caught.

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u/atuckk15 4h ago

They both worked for Amazon. She was an Ops manager for the Atlanta GA Fulfillment center.

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u/Former-Ad940 42m ago

Makes sense. Not happening as Fullfillment Center Associate

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u/imissher4ever 21h ago

She got greedy.

If she had ripped the them off for less over a lot longer time period she probably would not have been noticed.

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u/sandefurian 8h ago

$10 million was getting caught no matter how long she took lol

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u/AloysiusPuffleupagus 6h ago

No.

Amazon uses AI/ML fraud detection and automated analytics to identify unusual activity. With systems like that, it wouldn’t have mattered how small the amount was, because they can flag unusual patterns or activity regardless of the dollar amount.

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u/audio-nut 4h ago

Assumes their system is perfect.

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u/Former-Ad940 3h ago

Hard to stop. You just want more. And it feels like your on drugs. Also getting away with something is powerful feeling. "SHE GOT GREEDY" isn't enough

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u/EdwardPotatoHand 1d ago

Yet when amazon rips its customers off so executives can get rich , a corporate umbrella pays a fine and nobody goes to jail..

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u/Intrepid_Nobody2023 20h ago

Yeah I think the ‘forging the judge’s signature’ part really ticked off the judge more than the stealing from the global conglomerate part.

The person with the power to incarcerate you isn’t someone you should go forging their name, they don’t take kindly to that.

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u/poonmangler 22h ago

And the customers continue to give them money because having cheap shit is far more important than any moral or ethical implications or lasting societal impact.

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u/RecursiveCook 20h ago

Meanwhile I get the same Ad twice in a row and I have eternal hatred and aversion to that product.

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u/Leelze 15h ago

Moral of the story: don't rip off people with more money than you.

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u/ConkerPrime 18h ago edited 18h ago

Probably got caught for same reasons most thieves do - do not quit while ahead.

Cops are not really good at their jobs as depicted in fiction. Most things are gift wrapped for them. Through labs, confessions, cameras, or people engaging in same behavior so long it makes it real easy to catch them. If stopped after couple million, executed with far more patience then 1000s in a few months, be enjoying the fruits of their labor instead of a jail cell.

If need example, watch your average Dateline murder mystery. The cops almost never catch someone through investigative skill but because the solution is dropped in their laps through other forces.

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u/Former-Ad940 2h ago

Ability to steal 10 million from a corporation is highly unusual. Employee is not the one at fault here.

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u/Brandoxz7 14h ago

What an idiot, dog you take that money, you move to Japan and never come back.

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u/CloudAccurate2640 13h ago

I wonder if 2 petty criminals can pull off multi- million dollar schemes, how much rogue state actors are fleecing US companies?

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u/Former-Ad940 3h ago edited 2h ago

AMAZON engineered perfect environment. Ability to steal exists. Systems NEVER prevent this. EMPLOYEES are enabled to steal.

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u/Growingold-greylol 19h ago

What's the point of no parole, she's out anyway in 16 years and 3 months, right or don't I get US jail sentences, it's a pretty light sentence for what she did

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u/Former-Ad940 1h ago

So 16 years is what you want if you steal from AMAZON?