So we received a pair of obviously fake RayBans in the mail the other day. They were from China. No one here ordered them. Anyone else receive them or another item they didn’t order from China?
Return to sender. I think there is a scam here, but I’m not sure what it is.
How about have you received the texts on your phone trying to indicate you have a UPS package to be picked up or a delivery due of some product and it wants you to click on a link - totally fake. H and I have both received these. Looked it up (the phone number) and yep, scam.
I’ve heard of other folks getting the RayBans and I heard they are a really poor quality knock off. I think they were sent instead of an order of a different item from a supposedly legitimate seller (but turned out not to be).
@abasket I just got one of those texts this morning. I didn’t click on it.
It says " Urgent notice about your USPS delivery 7K64H from 07/05/2020" Then I am supposed to click. I will not.
Haven’t people been getting texts/emails like this for awhile? I don’t even think about them at this point.
These have been going on for a while - for some reason known as “brushing”. The seed aspect of it was new, or just recently got press attention.
“ Most e-commerce sites rate sellers by multiple criteria and display these seller ratings to customers. Since a good rating can boost sales, these ratings are very important to sellers. The number of items sold is usually an important factor in that rating. Brushing consists of generating fake orders to boost the rating.
A seller can do this by paying someone a small amount to place a fake order, or just using another person’s information to place an order themselves. Because a shipment usually has to take place for an order to be considered valid by the e-commerce site, the seller will frequently ship an empty box or some cheap item. These fake orders, if unnoticed, can boost the seller’s rating, which can make it more likely that their items will appear at the top of search results on e-commerce sites.”
You may have dealt with sellers that will send you a gift card or small gift (wireless chargers are popular) after an Amazon purchase, in exchange for sending them a link to your Amazon review of your purchase. Brushing has a similar goal, just more dishonest.