You don’t know what’s in the box, you didn’t order or pay for it, but it’s delivered to you with your name on it and without a return address.
“Once the product is delivered, they know that that’s a verified address and they use the consumer’s information to write a glowing, beautiful review online,” said Mitchell, CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Eastern Oklahoma. “So they are turning around and using this as promotion for their company to say that you are a verified user because you had the package delivered but they are making up this review, making it sound like it’s the best product and in turn getting more business by having so many positive reviews.”
Mitchell says it’s called the brushing scam.
“Number one it’s illegal, and also there’s lots of great marketing ideas that cost less but evidently they figured out this is the way to market illegally and consumers are ending …
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