What if I found a loop hole/bug in/on a company/app and take advantage of it by making their losses?

[SiddharthR]

Found in Amazon app in my case...🤫

 

[AsB]

As long as the company hasn't found it, you are good to go.
If the losses are monetary, the company will let you go, as they cannot win legally, unless they had mentioned it in their T & C (very unlikely)
If the losses are extreme, like stealing private information, or trying to hack, the company will sue you

I had a friend during my B.Tech, who would use Uber app to make tons of money - so much that he bought a phone worth Rs 17k , even when he was relying on scholarship money to pay for hostel and University fees. Of course, he used some illegal means, but it wasn't illegal at that time. Also, we were in a Govt. University, so the price wasn't extremely high compared to private ones.

I read somewhere during that same year that a person had found out about a (non IT related) bug in Uber app, by which he could bypass the entire payment page, and get the ride for free. He informed Uber about this, and got free rides for life or for a year (one of them).

So, to be extremely very sure, read their Terms and Conditions about exploitation.

Also, talking about the bug on Amazon, I think many people take advantage of it, and I haven't heard anyone getting dragged to court, so you are good to go. Even there is a Telegram channel about such bugs.

It seems like Telegram is the Swiss Bank of all loopholes of companies.

 

[CMGCMG is verified member.]

Found my me in case of Amazon...🤫

If the bug is in scope of bug bounty program, depending upon the severity, you will receive a compensation from amazon. Find more here: https://hackerone.com/amazonvrp

 

[azimk]

Found my me in case of Amazon...🤫

Tell me sir....

 

[azimk]

Tell me sir....

Milkar phayda uthate hai 🤣

 

[Krutik1995]

Found my me in case of Amazon...🤫

What is bug about ? Payment, add money , shopping?

 

[SiddharthR]

What is bug about ? Payment, add money , shopping?

Shopping (Replacement at free of cost without paying anything)
1. Package damaged in transit (Imp), delivery not possible
2. Called customer care, they create replacement order
3. Cancelled first order & refund received
4. Replacement delivered at free of cost

The bug is that
1) the first order can be cancelled after replacement order created at ₹0.00 by customer care
2) and refund gets issued for first order without cancelling replacement order automatically by the system.

 

[Krutik1995]

Shopping (Replacement at free of cost without paying anything)
1. Package damaged, delivery not possible
2. Called customer care, they create replacement order
3. Cancelled first order & refund received
4. Replacement delivered at free of cost

But how will they agree with package damage ? They will create replacement with pickup of damaged product

 

[SiddharthR]

But how will they agree with package damage ? They will create replacement with pickup of damaged product

I had not accepted the delivery (The product was damaged in transit) and create replacement through customer care and then just after creating replacement order by them, I cancelled first order and refund was issued automatically by the system. Also the replacement order was not cancelled after cancelling the first order.

This was happened only once with me.
Please comment here if anyone knows any other bug in Amazon or any app.

 

[Krutik1995]

I had not accepted the delivery (The product was damaged in transit) and create replacement through customer care and then just after creating replacement order by them, I cancelled first order and refund was issued automatically by the system. Also the replacement order was not cancelled after cancelling the first order.

This was happened only once with me.
Please comment here if anyone knows any other bug in Amazon or any app.

Have you ordered non refundable product?

 

[SiddharthR]

Have you ordered non refundable product?

What is that? You mean to say non-returnable?

 

[Krutik1995]

Have you ordered non refundable product?

Non returnable

 

[SiddharthR]

Non returnable

No