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Re:The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels by bogwog on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:03PM (#24414656)
> The name/address on the was that of a recent immigrant living in New York City

How did you gather so much information from a shipping label?

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Re:The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels by ardy42 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:12PM (#24415612)
> How did you gather so much information from a shipping label?

Google. The name was pretty unique, and I found his wedding website (IIRC). Street view showed the address was pretty clearly a (large) apartment building.

Now that I think about it, it's possible that the name was another stolen identity, but somehow I doubt it.

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