At this point, it is clear that I am being targetted for credit card fraud.

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Can you give a YOY YTD comparison? If you have those numbers?

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Publish the names and addresses.

If you were the victim of an in-person crime, such as a mugging, you would tell people, right? Why is there such reticence to do so for online crime?

You can do it anonymously if you wish. You can post on badbuyerlist, or facebook, or reddit or any number of social media sites.

Do I sound angry here? Yes, I am pissed at the huge number of people, from managers of small businesses to large, who fail to report these scammers. All it takes is a little cowardice here, a little irresponsibility there, and the scammers continue.

I just had a fraudulent return by Sergei Mezhericher from Des Plaines. He has been committing the same crime for decades, and doing so from the same address. Yet most major venues allow him to continue.

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My only reticence is when I believe the name and address belong to a victim of identity theft.

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I gave YOY in my OP, and YTD for October for 2024, with 2025 in the above post. Not sure what other info you want?

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If I was a crook who wanted to commit these crimes, I could target so many different sellers on Amazon so that no one would be the wiser. Why would they target one seller specifically so that the pattern would be so obvious?

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I donā€™t think itā€™s one thief hitting me over and over. I think itā€™s a ring who steal CC info, and they keep hitting me, and probably other sellers in my industry who just arenā€™t on SAS, because they have connections in my industry so they can unload the product easily.

It is also possible that this is coming from other ecommerce sellers, as the orders get shipped all over the country. They get orders on their site or account, sropship them from my Amazon store, but pay me with a stolen CC which gets chargebacked and they pocket the payment from their original customer.

A large portion of these chargebacked orders are for various residential thermostats, and they are buying multiples each round. Nobody needs 12 thermostats for personal use. The orders come from dozens of accounts, going to different addresses.

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