Amazon Sues Scammers Targeting Authors

The suit includes details of unnamed authors who were taken in by the scams, including one who visited one of the defendant sites thinking she was accessing Amazon's legitimate self-publishing services. The authors "corresponded with Defendants or their agents, who not only claimed to be Amazon representatives, but sent documents making further uses of the Amazon Marks," the complaint states. "Believing she was working with Amazon, [the author] paid Defendants $4,000.00 for purported editorial and publication services." The woman learned she was scammed after the service failed to materialize.