Amazon Sues 2 Influencers for Selling Counterfeit Items on TikTok and Instagram

  • 3 years ago
Amazon Sues 2 Influencers for Selling Counterfeit Items on TikTok and Instagram.
According to a lawsuit
filed by Amazon on Thursday.
Kelly Fitzpatrick and Sabrina Kelly-Krejci allegedly
used their social media accounts and personal websites
to promote knockoff goods being sold on Amazon.
According to NBC News, the suit also names
11 businesses and individuals in China and America that allegedly listed the products on Amazon.
Amazon confirmed the integrity
of the products by purchasing
them from the alleged offenders.
Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon’s vice president
of customer trust and partner support.
was shocked by the overall brazenness of the women advertising the products on social media.
Every piece of data that you’d look at Amazon, or that we had, might have looked fine. , Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon’s vice president of customer trust
and partner support, via statement.
But the smoking gun here was sometimes lying in plain sight on a set of social media sites, Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon’s vice president of customer trust
and partner support, via statement

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