Amazon seized more than 6 million counterfeit items in 2022

Third-party merchants have long been using Amazon's website to sell counterfeit products, but the retail giant says it's now slowing the number of fakes being sold on the site. — Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon says it is winning the battle against the large number of counterfeit products on its platform and says it seized and disposed of more than 6 million fake products last year.

That's up from around 3 million counterfeit products stopped the year before, the world's largest online retailer said in a report published on Tuesday.