Amazon is suing a group on Telegram it says orchestrated $1.2 million in fraudulent refunds while taking a cut

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A screenshot showing an illustration of a Gorilla in a crown bearing an Amazon logo — a graphic adopted by a group accused of using Telegram to scam the online retailer.
Amazon has sued "unknown persons" operating the telegram channel "Chin Chopa" to seek refunds from the company.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE

LA Sheriff says it busted a retail crime ring with millions of dollars of stolen medication and personal care products

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a view down an aisle of locked up beauty products inside Target
Personal care products under lock and key at a Target store.

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A retail group said organized retail crime accounted for 'nearly half' of 2021's $94.5 billion inventory loss. It didn't.

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A railroad workers inspects a track as they repair a section of Union Pacific train tracks after a train derailed from the tracks, which are littered with thousands of opened boxes and packages stolen from cargo shipping containers targeted by thieves as the trains stop in downtown Los Angeles, California
Dozens of freight cars are broken into every day in Los Angeles by thieves who take advantage of their stops to loot the packages they carry, leavi

Is shoplifting getting worse? It depends on how you measure it.

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Courtroom with piles of personal care items stolen in organized retail crime
Some of the more than $200,000 in stolen retail goods seized by the San Francisco Police Department from a man who was reselling them online.

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San Francisco's retail crime may not be as bad as you think

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A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021
A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021.

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Walmart, Amazon, and others lost millions of dollars to an organized online refund fraud scheme

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Delivery drivers are often the ones to bear the brunt of customer complaints about missing or damaged shipments.

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Target says it's closing 9 locations over crime, but New York City crime stats surrounding its East Harlem store tell another story

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Target said it would close this location on 117th Street in New York, along with eight other US stores.

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Former Target vice-chairman says the internet is 'like a flea market on steroids' for getting rid of stolen products

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Target is widely regarded as a great place to work, but current and former employees say there's more to the story

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Target to close 9 stores across 4 states, citing retail crime. See the full list.

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Target is closing nine stores in four states. It says theft and organized retail crime are threatening safety.

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Shoplifting and other inventory loss cost retailers $112 billion last year

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Tide laundry detergent bottles locked up inside CVS store
Tide laundry detergent bottles with a security locking system to prevent theft at a CVS pharmacy, Queens, New York.

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