{"id":20700,"date":"2018-02-26T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:59:53","slug":"money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/02\/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon\/\">Brian Krebs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/02\/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon\/\">\n<p>But that didn&rsquo;t stop someone from publishing a &ldquo;novel&rdquo; under his name. That word is in quotations because the publication appears to be little more than computer-generated text, almost like the gibberish one might find in a spam email.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The impersonator priced the book at $555 and it was posted to multiple Amazon sites in different countries. The book &mdash; which as been removed from most Amazon country pages as of a few days ago &mdash; is titled &ldquo;Lower Days Ahead,&rdquo; and was published on Oct 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Reames said he suspects someone has been buying the book using stolen credit and\/or debit cards, and pocketing the 60 percent that Amazon gives to authors.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Reames said Amazon refuses to send him a corrected 1099, or to discuss anything about the identity thief.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs: But that didn&rsquo;t stop someone from publishing a &ldquo;novel&rdquo; under his name. That word is in quotations because the publication appears to be little more than computer-generated text, almost like the gibberish one might find in a spam email. [&#8230;] The impersonator priced the book at $555 and it was posted to multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,101,166,509,96],"class_list":["post-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-ebooks","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20701,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions\/20701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}