Roger Scotton Stole Five Years of Shipping Services by Pretending to Be Walmart, Prosecutors Say
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If convicted of all 26 counts, he could be in prison for 520 years.
Court documents say Rogerio Chaves Scotton, of Brazil, operated brazilexpressonline.com, according to court documents, where he sold electronics and other goods and shipped them around the U.S. and Brazil, with lower shipping costs than his competitors because, well, he wasn't paying for them.
Scotton allegedly shipped thousands of packages with fake accounts of other companies; authorities appear to have caught on when the real companies said they weren't the ones mailing all of these packages and got their money back. He faces 20 years in prison and at least $250,000 in fines on each of his 26 counts of mail fraud.
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