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by nabilhat 890 days ago
Except when it doesn't:

https://www.amazon.com/FOPEAS-Language-Context-referring-Inf...

The seller account's entire product list is a stream of scraped images with AI-nglish descriptions slapped on by autopilot. If you can cast thousands of lines for free and you know the ranger isn't looking, you don't need good bait to catch fish.

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That link already leads to a "not found" page.

I hope it was because they are banning those catch fish, and not an isolated case due you put the link.

The mole was whacked, but only slightly. The seller's account and remaining scammy inventory is still up. The offense here was clearly the embarassment to Amazon from a couple of examples of blatant incompetence, not the scam itself.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=FOPEAS

At some point today an Amazon employee read this thread as silently voiced "god damnit, I'll have to do something about this"
There's 10^x more of where that's coming from... Welcome to The Matrix
AInglish is such a good word, thanks for that