Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 "books" full of computer-generated word salad
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3GTY8)
Amazon reported to the IRS that Patrick Reames had made $24,000 selling books on its Createspace self-publishing platform, but Patrick Reames never got a dime of that money; it appears that a money-launderer who had Reames's Social Security Number used a fake book to cash out money from stolen credit cards by buying the garbage book repeatedly and pocketing the 70% from each sale. (more")