Amazon Files Lawsuit to Combatbr Illegal Advertising Schemes.br Amazon has filed a new lawsuit in an effortbr to unmask 50 unidentified scammers. .br The e-commerce giant will attempt tobr identify and stop scammers who are usingbr Amazon’s logos, web design and likeness.br The scam in question involves posing asbr Amazon to trick people into buying productsbr that are not actually from Amazon.br They’re acting as “referrers” for otherbr companies' products, meaning they collect abr “finder’s fee” in the form of commissions. .br The Better Business Bureau received a whopping br 771 reports in 2020 of Amazon-impersonation scams. .br That’s second only to scam calls claimingbr to be the Social Security Administration.br Amazon filed a similar John Doe lawsuit in 2018br in which it tracked down four defendants. .br The company has won at least $1.5 million inbr settlements from that lawsuit so far, with each casebr ending with a permanent injunction.