<story><title>Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>This sounds extraordinarily poorly handled by the RCMP. He could show that he purchased it from his own credit card and on Amazon, so that&amp;#x27;s pretty good evidence that he&amp;#x27;s the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator of it. Weird how extremely aggressive the RCMP is.&lt;p&gt;That this is allowed to exist in legal limbo is ridiculous. He should be able to demand rectification and damages. And the real problem here is of course Amazon for enabling such scams. They should be on the hook for this, not some unsuspecting customer. And the real fraudster should be easy to track down through Amazon if they&amp;#x27;ve done their due diligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelcloud</author><text>In terms of the RCMP and their aggressive behaviour. It makes perfect sense. First Nations people have not been treated well by the RCMP or LE for a very long time in Canada... This still persists to this day, systematic discrimination and all that stuff.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>This sounds extraordinarily poorly handled by the RCMP. He could show that he purchased it from his own credit card and on Amazon, so that&amp;#x27;s pretty good evidence that he&amp;#x27;s the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator of it. Weird how extremely aggressive the RCMP is.&lt;p&gt;That this is allowed to exist in legal limbo is ridiculous. He should be able to demand rectification and damages. And the real problem here is of course Amazon for enabling such scams. They should be on the hook for this, not some unsuspecting customer. And the real fraudster should be easy to track down through Amazon if they&amp;#x27;ve done their due diligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bparsons</author><text>The RCMP, particularly in small towns are very bad at these types of investigations. The truly shocking thing is that they followed up on it at all.</text></comment>