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How One Couple Stole $1.2 Million From Amazon

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On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Muncie, Indiana married couple to nearly six years in prison apiece for stealing more than $1.2 million in consumer electronics from e-commerce giant Amazon.

It's the end to a con that Erin and Leah Jeanette Finan, both 38, had been perpetrating for years.

"Their Amazon scheme was their 'job,'" the federal government said of the Finans in its press release. "Fraud had become a way of life."

Between 2014 and 2016, the Finans created hundreds of fake online identities and Amazon accounts. They then used them to order more than 2,700 electronics products — GoPro digital cameras, Microsoft Xboxes, Apple MacBooks, Microsoft Surface tablets and more, federal authorities said in a press release announcing their sentencing.

After ordering the products, the Finans would tell the company that the products had arrived damaged or that they did not work.

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