All three retailers don't want you to know about this (and they're not the only ones doing it)...

The group of alleged thieves in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 7 in Seattle, are identified as "individuals from around the world who operate under the name 'REKK.'" Amazon claims that the group has over 30,000 followers and advertises refund services that "they fully admit are fraudulent." The online retail giant claims that REKK's followers would pay the organization money to obtain a refund for a product that they want for free, and REKK would allegedly use methods such as "socially engineering Amazon customer service, phishing Amazon employees, manipulating Amazon's systems through unauthorized access, and bribing Amazon insiders to grant refunds." The scheme would trick Amazon into giving refunds for products that "are never returned," according to the lawsuit...

One of the best performing stocks in recent history is e-commerce behemoth Amazon. Remember, Amazon started off as an online marketplace for books. A couple of decades ago, very few people would have entertained Amazon as a investment opportunity of this caliber...