Cindy Smith said she quickly became confused when the random deliveries addressed to a “Lixiao Zhang” recently started piling up outside her home in Prince William County, Virginia.
“It’s a lot of packages,” she continued. “I didn’t order them.”
Footage taken by the local outlet showed dozens of boxes piled up on her doorstep and in her basement. “All my neighbors got glue guns or headlamps,” Smith continued. “I gave them to dog shelters, to veterinary clinics. I went to Burger King one day, and I was like, ‘I have a gift for you.'”The so-called brushing scheme involves an online vendor creating a fake sale of their product and then sending the package to a random address so they boost their Amazon 5-star review rating.
“It all boils down to money,” CJ Rosenbaum, a New York Attorney who represents vendors that sell on Amazon, said.
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