
How to stop Amazon.com from getting sting operations
- July 29, 2021
A sting operation on Amazon.co.uk is about to take place, as the company tries to gain control of the web-delivery service by taking control of its operator, Amazon.to.
The operation is part of Amazon’s aggressive push to get more control over the delivery business, which has seen Amazon acquire the majority of the remaining competitors.
Amazon also has a stake in rival courier and courier-deliveror Parcelforce.
Amazon has not disclosed details of the operation, which it is calling the “Amazon Spies” campaign.
However, in its application to the British Home Office, the company noted that Amazon.de is a target, and that it intends to “take action against the operators of the ParcelForce and Amazon.ca” companies.
The application did not disclose any details of how the “Spies” operation would be conducted.
“The aim of the sting is to obtain information to help Amazon identify and investigate possible illegal activity on the internet,” the application states.
Amazon Spies will be conducted over a period of months, and will target operators of three services that have been targeted in the past: Amazon.tv, Amazon Kindle and Amazon Echo.
In November, Amazon announced it was going to purchase Parcel Force, a provider of delivery services to small- and medium-sized businesses.
In a statement, Parcel Service confirmed it would not be affected by the sting.
“We have always been committed to protecting our customers, and we continue to do so,” Parcel Services said in the statement.
The company also noted that “any attempts to disrupt Amazon’s business model will be met with swift action.”
Amazon declined to comment for this story.
Amazon, which recently acquired Parcels.com, operates a network of more than 600,000 delivery centers in more than 40 countries, as well as several delivery service businesses in the US and Europe.
Amazon said that the new operation would target those operators and provide it with “a large amount of valuable information that will enable us to make more informed decisions regarding our relationship with them.”