Give Scammers the Brush-Off

Don’t recall ordering those bacon strip bandages or that chicken harness from Amazon? Maybe you did place that order, but there’s a good chance that you didn’t. If that’s the case, then you just might have been a victim of a brushing scam, a practice that is illegal here in the United States. According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), a brushing scam occurs when a third-party seller, in most cases a foreign entity, sends merchandise to a person’s address and later drafts a flattering review of the product online that appears to have been offered by the recipient of the unsolicited items.

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