How we’re using AI innovations to stop fraud and counterfeits
We recently released our Brand Protection report, which demonstrates our efforts to stop bad actors and protect your business from counterfeit products through industry-leading technology and strategic partnerships.
In 2024, we invested more than a billion dollars and employed thousands of people—including machine learning scientists, software developers and expert investigators—to help protect customers, brands, selling partners and our store from counterfeit, fraud and other forms of abuse.
The report outlines the progress we’ve made, including the following highlights:
- In 2024, we identified, seized and appropriately disposed of more than 15 million counterfeit products worldwide, preventing them from harming customers or being resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain.
- Since its launch in 2020, Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit has pursued more than 24,000 bad actors through litigation and criminal referrals to law enforcement.
- Through our continued investment in AI, our improved proactive controls blocked more than 99 percent of suspected infringing listings before the brand owners had to find and report them.
- Since 2020, while the number of products available for sale in our store has continued to grow, we have seen around a 35-percent decrease in the total valid notices of infringement submitted by brands.
- More than 2.5 billion product units have been verified as genuine through our Transparency program, which has enrolled 88,000 brands worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, global brands, startups and small businesses.
We remain committed to continued advancements and we will not rest until we drive counterfeits to zero.
For more detailed updates on our strategic areas of focus and the progress we’ve made, go to the Brand Protection report.
To report abusive customers or sellers, go to Report abuse.
How we’re using AI innovations to stop fraud and counterfeits
We recently released our Brand Protection report, which demonstrates our efforts to stop bad actors and protect your business from counterfeit products through industry-leading technology and strategic partnerships.
In 2024, we invested more than a billion dollars and employed thousands of people—including machine learning scientists, software developers and expert investigators—to help protect customers, brands, selling partners and our store from counterfeit, fraud and other forms of abuse.
The report outlines the progress we’ve made, including the following highlights:
- In 2024, we identified, seized and appropriately disposed of more than 15 million counterfeit products worldwide, preventing them from harming customers or being resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain.
- Since its launch in 2020, Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit has pursued more than 24,000 bad actors through litigation and criminal referrals to law enforcement.
- Through our continued investment in AI, our improved proactive controls blocked more than 99 percent of suspected infringing listings before the brand owners had to find and report them.
- Since 2020, while the number of products available for sale in our store has continued to grow, we have seen around a 35-percent decrease in the total valid notices of infringement submitted by brands.
- More than 2.5 billion product units have been verified as genuine through our Transparency program, which has enrolled 88,000 brands worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, global brands, startups and small businesses.
We remain committed to continued advancements and we will not rest until we drive counterfeits to zero.
For more detailed updates on our strategic areas of focus and the progress we’ve made, go to the Brand Protection report.
To report abusive customers or sellers, go to Report abuse.
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Reply from a small Amazon seller..
"Through our continued investment in AI, our improved proactive controls" Amazon has succeeded in raising the bar on small sellers by arbitrarily blocking legitimate, authorised listings and causing material damage. Sellers have become frustrated by AI responses that have removed listings and returned their stock for the wrong reasons.
All the while, foreign sellers have succeeded in establishing fake brands to relist genuine brands and eroded the market for the genuine brand. This while listing the genuine brand names and blatantly displaying images of the genuine brand product.
While the macro picture may look rosy for Amazon - sellers of genuine product in North America are still reeling from the effects of fake brand sellers freely trading on Amazon.
Please fix it completely.
