Amazon paid a Connecticut man $3.5M for more than 1,000 trailer moves that never happened —now he’s going to prison

Chris MorrisWed, October 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

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A Connecticut man is headed to prison after pleading guilty to defrauding Amazon out of millions of dollars in an elaborate logistics scheme.

Ameer Nasir was sentenced to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for the crime, in which he defrauded Amazon out of more than $3.5 million. He remains out on a $300,000 bond and will report to prison on Nov. 12.

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Nasir pleaded guilty to wire fraud on March 6 after being arrested on May 8, 2025. The wire fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He has also been ordered to pay restitution to Amazon of $3,547,090.93.

Transport two-step

Nasir targeted Amazon Logistics via a service called Amazon Relay, which connects trucking companies to transportation assignments. He registered 23 trucking businesses with the retailer’s subsidiary, which organizes the transport of trailers between cities, warehouses and fulfillment centers.

According to the Department of Justice, one of those accounts was created in the name of Nasir’s business, Pak Express Transport. The others were created under false names or by fraudulently using the names of other trucking and transportation companies.

From December 2019 through February 2021, officials say Nasir used these accounts to sign up for over 1,000 transportation assignments with Amazon Logistics. He manipulated data in the company’s transportation management system to give the impression he had completed trailer movements when he had not, virtually checking trailers in and out of the system. He then submitted fraudulent invoices to Amazon Logistics, which were paid.

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Closing the loop

Amazon has introduced additional fraud controls to Relay to prevent future incidents. For example, drivers must now verify their identities and trailer telematics keep track of shipments that are in transit.

Trailers included GPS technology when Nasir was running his scheme, but he reportedly evaded it by using a manual override to make it appear he had completed the trailer movements.

Logistics is a key part of Amazon’s operations. According to ShipMatrix, in 2025 the company delivered 6.7 billion packages, making it the top U.S. parcel carrier by volume, beating the U.S. Postal Service. To put it in perspective, it’s over 50% more packages than UPS delivered last year and nearly twice as many as FedEx.

UPS and FedEx remain the top carriers as judged by market share by revenue.

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