Connecticut Man Faces Up to 20 Years for $3.5 Million Amazon Logistics Fraud Scheme

A 25-year-old Connecticut man is set to be sentenced on September 4 after pleading guilty to defrauding Amazon Logistics of more than $3.5 million through a sophisticated scheme involving fake trailer movements. Ameer Nasir of Trumbull, Connecticut, admitted to submitting over 1,000 fraudulent transportation assignments to Amazon’s middle-mile logistics operations between December 2019 and February 2021. The fraud exploited Amazon’s GPS-based tracking system, allowing Nasir to bypass geofence controls and falsely claim payments for services never rendered. Nasir registered 23 trucking businesses—some fake, some real, and one under his own Pak Express Transport—to submit phony invoices. He also misappropriated identifying information from unrelated trucking companies, including their names, addresses, and U.S. Department of Transportation identification numbers. The scheme netted him over $3 million, with individual fraudulent payments ranging from $1,650 to $7,247 per shipment. Amazon Logistics detected the fraud after Nasir was paid $4,566 in May 2020 for a Washington state-to-Florida trailer movement that never occurred. The case was investigated by the FBI with assistance from Amazon. Nasir faces up to 20 years in prison and has agreed to pay $3.54 million in restitution. He was released on a $300,000 bond pending sentencing. The fraud centered on Amazon’s middle-mile logistics, where third-party carriers move trailers between warehouses and fulfillment centers. Nasir manipulated the Amazon Relay system, which uses GPS geofencing to verify trailer locations, by manually overriding check-in and check-out processes to falsify completion of shipments.