Connecticut man sentenced to two years for $3.5M Amazon trucking fraud
Ameer Nasir, a 25‑year‑old from Trumbull, Connecticut, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in federal prison for defrauding Amazon Logistics of more than $3.5 million. He had registered 23 trucking accounts with Amazon Relay, which prosecutors tied to over 1,000 nonexistent trailer moves.
The scheme ran from December 2019 through February 2021, during which Nasir used the accounts to obtain transportation assignments and falsely check trailers in and out via Amazon Relay. Prosecutors said he evaded Relay’s GPS geofencing safeguard by misusing the platform’s manual override, and one May 16, 2020, assignment from Kent, Washington, to Lakeland, Florida, was billed at $4,566.41 although the trailer never moved. Nasir pleaded guilty to one wire fraud count on March 6, 2026, and the court ordered $3,547,090.93 in restitution plus three years of supervised release.
Amazon has since added identity and driver verification measures to its Relay platform to curb fraud, according to earlier FreightWaves reporting. The scheme ended in February 2021, and the indictment shows Nasir exploited the system more than five years ago, leaving uncertain whether a similar fraud could succeed today.
What we know
2 years prison sentence
$3.5 million loss
23 trucking accounts
over 1,000 nonexistent trailer movements
$3,547,090.93 restitution