🚨 URGENT: Fraud Scam with Stolen Listings, Fake Returns, & Notepads – AMAZON PLEASE TAKE ACTION

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🚨 URGENT: Fraud Scam with Stolen Listings, Fake Returns, & Notepads – AMAZON PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Hello Amazon Seller Community and Amazon Support,

We are the owners of Creative Picture Frames, and we are currently the target of an organized and repeated return scam that is hurting our business and damaging our brand across multiple platforms.

🔍 Here's what's happening:

A bad actor is stealing our Amazon listings — product titles, images, and descriptions — and reposting them on Walmart, Kmart, UBuy, and other marketplaces, marking them up significantly.

They then place a one-time order on Amazon as a buyer, using a new account each time.

After the product is delivered, they claim it’s “inaccurate,” initiate a return, and send back a small notepad (we've received multiple — same type, different colors).

Amazon processes a full refund, and the scammer pockets the price difference they charged on the other sites — while we lose both product and money.

📦 We have photo evidence of:

Multiple fake returns involving the exact same style of notepad.

A clear pattern of abuse tied to fraudulent listings and unauthorized resellers misrepresenting our brand.

📢 What we’re doing:

We are now issuing Cease and Desist letters to all sellers misusing our brand Creative Picture Frames across Walmart and other marketplaces.

We're filing SAFE-T claims and have contacted support multiple times — but the abuse continues.

❗ AMAZON, we urgently need:

An investigation into the buyer accounts involved in these returns.

Support identifying and blocking coordinated return abusers.

Stronger protections for brands facing listing theft and fake returns.

And most importantly: MORE CONTROL over return approvals and inspections before refunds are processed.

This is not an isolated issue.

This is a scam model targeting legitimate Amazon sellers and making a profit by exploiting your return system and your sellers’ hard work.

We are asking for real action — not copy-paste responses. If this can happen to us, it can happen to any small business selling here.

Please help us stop this.

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Xander_Amazon

Creative_LLC - can you share the Order Ids associated with the pokemon notepads? Im tracking multiple reports of that same design by other sellers. Thank you for coming to the forums to share.

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Seller_hvPim3qTiyMAS

Oh my goodness! I have gotten this twice and thought it was a weird fluke! please folow up with this @Xander_Amazon

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Xander_Amazon

Hi folks,

If you have commented on here and shared your Order ID and photos of a return that included Pokémon notepads/deflated balloons, please know that I have included it in my escalation for further investigation. Thank you for your help in reporting suspected buyer abuse!

Respectfully,

Xander

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Seller_RyeXH7oA2vwkz

I've been through this. It is the worst - and I'm surprised how hard it was to resolve. If you haven't already done so, I strongly recommend you start the process of trademarking your brand and product with USPTO. Then, I recommend you get registered with Amazon's Brand Registry - which you can apply for after your TM process has started. Being the Brand Registry will help you protect yourself. This may take weeks or months to resolve - but they process saved our business. We've been through the EXACT nightmare you are going through and it is beyond crazy that Amazon can't stop / prevent this.

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Seller_XjolGGpui9INo

I also posted a thread, we are having the same issues, same notebooks. On the Amazon return labels, I noticed that the tracking for the return is all originating in either the City of Commerce or Ontario. Have you looked to see where the return (small notebook) is originating from?

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Seller_OiykdzzSOCkgp

Their purpose is to improve your return label. Because I also have a product like this, I also reported these buyer accounts through abuse and they must give us an explanation.

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Seller_u7NVsocmiJKMW

This has happened to my business as well and I had my lawyer order it from Walmart Marketplace so we can trace it!! I have tried to talk with Amazon on this and they don't seem to care! My product has been given the "Frequently Returned Item" badge and even though I have been sabotaged by a competitor and proven it over and over again, Amazon doesn't remove the competitor but instead let's them continue this. It's SO WRONG even being a brand register company.

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Seller_fUvg2Qjmkdzzw

same thing is happening to me on Ebay

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Xander_Amazon

As an update, the escalation is under investigation. Thank you again for coming to the Forums and reporting it! Should you receive more packages with Pokémon notepads or deflated balloons, please:

1) Tag me

2) Include the Order ID and Safe-T claim number (if applicable) associated with those items

3) Pictures of the notepads/balloons.

- Xander

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