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Old Feb 8, 2024 | 2:58 pm
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Originally Posted by mia
Article in NY Times uses Saks as an example of an online retailer affected by return fraud:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/s...tail-scam.html (Subscription required)
Not sure why this is referred to as "return fraud". To me it's outright theft. Someone opened the customer's shipping box and replaced an expensive ashtray with a cheap can of tuna. That person just plain old fashioned stole the ashtray in my book.
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