10 Feb
2023
10 Feb
'23
2:49 a.m.
On 2/9/2023 5:40 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
At this point I will chime in.
....
They clearly went to the trouble of trawling through USPS tracking details
to find something that was shipped from near their suburb to Sydney
Australia by somebody else and submitted it as their evidence they had
shipped.
This is called a "brushing" attack.
They sell you a high value item, then send some crappy nearly free item
to some other address in the vicinity, and use that to "prove" to PayPal
that you got it.
The recipient has no idea WTF the item is so they discard it. Apparently
the folks here don't understand just how far apart Australian cities can
be. Worked in your favor.
I went ballistic with paypal, and got a refund.
It's good to hear that PP did that.
-Rick