{"id":31310,"date":"2021-01-13T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31310"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:33:38","slug":"amazons-brushing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/13\/amazons-brushing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&rsquo;s &ldquo;Brushing&rdquo; Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/consumer\/mysterious-packages-showing-up-on-doorsteps\/2539531\/\">Susan Hogan and Meredith Royster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/consumer\/mysterious-packages-showing-up-on-doorsteps\/2539531\/\"><p>Seventeen Amazon packages have been delivered to Catherine Mayfield&rsquo;s home in Temple Hills, Maryland, since October. She didn&rsquo;t order any of them.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>According to Alex Hamerstone, a cybercrime expert from TrustedSec, sellers do this to boost their ratings. They make a fake account using a real name and address they can easily find online. The seller buys the product from themselves and sends it to the address.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In order for you to have a validated purchase so that your rating carries more weight, they actually have to ship something,&rdquo; said Hamerstone. The seller then writes a fake review and gives themselves five stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2021\/01\/13\/amazons-brushing-scam\/\">Dave Mark<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2021\/01\/13\/amazons-brushing-scam\/\">\n<p>Amazon created this process. Surely they could tweak their system so verified purchases are actually &ldquo;verified&rdquo;. Make it easy to report unordered packages, then have Amazon note on the product pages that the product has an active brushing scam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/bait-and-switch-amazon-reviews\/\">Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Hogan and Meredith Royster: Seventeen Amazon packages have been delivered to Catherine Mayfield&rsquo;s home in Temple Hills, Maryland, since October. She didn&rsquo;t order any of them. [&#8230;] According to Alex Hamerstone, a cybercrime expert from TrustedSec, sellers do this to boost their ratings. They make a fake account using a real name and address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-13T20:32:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"07c5a02c-b657-4f3f-8a65-80b9c97ae6f1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-24T19:33:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AB8WgLLZXTz-KZYC5yXrm8Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,2614,509,96],"class_list":["post-31310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-shipping","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31311,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310\/revisions\/31311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}