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As the scale of cross-border sellers gradually grows, competition becomes more intense, and the gameplay of Amazon becomes saturated. Therefore, many people in the industry are keen on the development of black technology and gray industries in order to gain more profits. Although the risks are considerable, the huge profits behind it still attract many sellers, causing them to walk on the edge of legal and platform restrictions. If they are not careful, they will lose everything. Account copier reappears? It is reported online that a service provider selling accounts was arrested Amazon accounts are particularly valuable for sellers who distribute goods or operate multiple accounts. However, as we all know, one set of legal person information can only register one Amazon account, so where do these bulk-registered accounts come from? Where there is demand, there is a market. It is learned that buying and selling accounts has become a common transaction item in the cross-border circle. Among them, one of the most common channels to obtain Amazon accounts is from service providers. Over time, this service has even developed into an industry, which is to use other people's identity information to register Amazon accounts. Related news has been reported before, pointing out that there are service providers in the market now recruiting part-time workers, and companies using the identity information of internal employees to register Amazon accounts. ▲ The picture comes from the Internet Recently, this situation of batch copying accounts has reappeared, and has even evolved into a criminal case. In the seller communication group, a screenshot like this is circulated, the content is as follows:
The original judgment determined that in April 2019, the defendant Fan wanted to make a profit by reselling the seller account of the Amazon online shopping platform store he registered. In order to facilitate the registration of the above account, the defendant Fan successively purchased a large amount of personal information of Chinese citizens from multiple online buyers (handled in another case) through QQ groups , and stored the above personal information of Chinese citizens in the Baidu network disk registered with the mobile phone number he used. Later, the defendant Fan rented an office space in Putian City, Fujian Province, and hired several accomplices at a monthly salary ranging from RMB 4,000 to 5,000. He used the illegally obtained personal information of citizens to successfully register more than 100 Amazon seller accounts , and sold the accounts to multiple sellers at prices ranging from RMB 200 to RMB 2,000 each for profit. The defendant Fan made a total profit of RMB 147,280. From the above content, we can judge that this is a case of using other people's identity information to register Amazon accounts, and the parties also made a considerable amount of money from selling Amazon accounts. It can be seen that the profit margin of selling Amazon accounts is very large, which may be one of the reasons why they chose to take risks. But at the same time, this practice is also very dangerous and undesirable.
China's criminal law stipulates that if anyone violates relevant national regulations and sells or provides citizens' personal information to others, and the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall be fined or fined alone; if the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years, and shall be fined. The lessons of the past are right in front of us. I hope that people in the cross-border circle will take them as a warning and never take risks! In addition to the above-mentioned common behaviors, another type of "gray job" on the Internet has recently entered the public eye. Openly recruiting hacker engineers? This cross-border job has caused controversy Recently, a seller posted a Weibo post saying: " Does anyone dare to apply for this kind of job? It's too blatant, isn't it?" and attached a screenshot of a job posting on a recruitment website. ▲ The picture comes from Weibo The screenshot shows that the job title is “Hacker Engineer” and the detailed description of the job is also very simple: find out who are the people who search for a certain keyword on platforms such as Amazon, AliExpress Baidu, Google, Lazada, Shopee, etc., and at least find their email, phone number and other contact information. ▲ The picture comes from Weibo Although the job description is concise, it contains a lot of information. The following are some important information: 1. This position is a hacker engineer, responsible for finding out the contact information of the objects that search for keywords on various platforms. 2. The platforms required include mainstream cross-border platforms such as Amazon, AliExpress, Lazada, Shopee, and mainstream search engines such as Baidu and Google. 3. The purpose is to obtain some users’ email addresses, contact numbers and other information. 4. Salary requirements are RMB 60,000-90,000 per month (15 salaries). 5. There are no restrictions on the applicants’ education and experience. Once this recruitment information was exposed, it attracted the attention of many people in the industry, and sellers had different opinions on it: "To be able to do something like this, you must have hacked into the databases of various platforms." "Why is this request so similar? Change the app theme color according to the color of the phone case." “It’s getting more and more judgmental.” "Wouldn't it be great if someone with this skill could just add a few zeros to the balance of a bank account? Why are you still dealing with such a formidable problem?" It is learned that currently, most sellers are skeptical and opposed to the work content of this position. They believe that these platforms themselves are unable to obtain the information of the searcher, and if they want to meet the requirements, they may have to invade the databases of various platforms. In addition, similar to the above case, this position also involves some personal information of the user. We do not know what measures will be taken to meet the above requirements and whether these measures are compliant and legal. However, we would like to remind all sellers that under the current environment of strict inspections and crackdowns by Amazon, do not easily test the edge of illegality and violations. Compliance operations are the general trend!
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