Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Online thieves are impersonating authors to launder money on Amazon


Patrick Reames earned over $20,000 selling books on Amazon last year. He didn’t see a dime of it. Reames, a credited author who’s earned money selling books on Amazon in the past, first learned of the mistake after receiving tax paperwork from the company. His 1099 form reported almost $24,000 in income, all from selling books via Createspace — Amazon’s self-publishing arm that allows anyone to sell their work on the platform. The work, though, wasn’t his. He told Brian Krebs, from Krebs on Security: Based on what I could see from the ‘sneak peak’ function, the book was nothing…

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