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Re:The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:58PM (#24413280)
Seems like Best Buy would be on the hook. Your address isn't the one associated with the stolen credit card but they accepted it as payment anyway. If the crook marked it as a gift, using the correct address as the payment address and your address as the shipping address, then it does get a bit murky since you were sent an unsolicited "stolen" package. Then it becomes a question of if the laptop is considered stolen or is it considered legally purchased with an illegal credit card transaction. If this was all done with stolen cash, I doubt the laptop would be considered stolen (but I'm not a lawyer so maybe it would be). With a stolen credit card it becomes a much more interesting legal question.

The unwanted bracelet/flower thing happens in South America too though usually with stickers or a small food item like gum or candy. The grifter will hand them out to an entire group and then ask for payment, at which point several people will already have eaten the food item or peeled off the sticker. If you refuse the item or return it in its original state, they usually don't hassle you about it. They rely on the gap of time between handing out the item to the first person and the last person to create an indebtedness that too small for you to make a fuss about paying.

Re:The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels by ValentineC on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:17PM (#24414216)
> Seems like Best Buy would be on the hook. Your address isn't the one associated with the stolen credit card but they accepted it as payment anyway.

The funny thing about Best Buy is that they refuse to ship packages to known mail forwarders, even if my card's mailing address matches said mail forwarder.