I'm sorry for not clarifying my position on this topic.
First off, it's not just non existing customers that Dish is busting retailers for. A majority of these "false" accounts are active customers that Dish calls "flipped".
A flipped account is a customer who had service, cancels service, and opens a new account under his wife, relative, etc..... This is the main reason for destroying many lives that Dish has come up with. This is also why I have been focusing my argument this direction.
More than 80% of these fraud accounts that Dish is terminating and charging back retailers for are flipped accounts. There are many of the cases where the retailer has no idea that it will be a flipped account because the customer has all ready spun their wheels with other retailers trying to get what they want, and after they figure out what they need to do, they find their victim.
I have seen the files from Dish on these retailers and this is how I know what is going on here.
Again, there are a few retailers that were out right stealing from Dish, but there are also some innocent victims here as well. So please do not group all these retailers together.