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TheBlackAdder

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5. Those photos look as fake as half of that bootleg Chinese knockoff stuff his site allows to be sold.
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:39 AM
Jan 2022

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Treat all supplements and OTC meds as suspect there.

YouTube's Mousetrap Monday exposed how Amazon allows dozens of clone sellers to exist that pirate US intellectual property, use watermarked images and portray fake endorsements. Bogus products hit the market days after the release of the legit product.

When reported, action is tepid, like they don't even care that much.


As a side note, when you get those spam and phishing emails, if you open up the message body, perform an NSLOOKUP on the IP address, you'll see that over half of them are coming from Amazon Web Service virtual hosts. It's so easy for spammers to set up services on the cheap and flood email systems. Thoe emails will then have URLs to other non-AWS sites.

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