Re:The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels
by kbenson on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:10PM
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> The name/address on the was that of a recent immigrant living in New York City. My understanding is that he's probably just a schmuck who got taken in by some fake work from home scam to transship the stolen items. He may even think he's working for Best Buy to process returns.
Given I just cleared some quarantines spam from some outgoing mailspools this morning on a hacked account where the spam in question was offering jobs to people to work from home "accepting deliveries, unpacking and checking the contents, and then mailing it on" promising something like $2900/mo (yeah, right), I suspect you're right that it's some random person taken in.
Given I just cleared some quarantines spam from some outgoing mailspools this morning on a hacked account where the spam in question was offering jobs to people to work from home "accepting deliveries, unpacking and checking the contents, and then mailing it on" promising something like $2900/mo (yeah, right), I suspect you're right that it's some random person taken in.