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The scam is known as "brushing." An online seller – usually overseas – purchases their own products through fake buyer accounts they've created. The products are shipped to a real address. Then, the seller writes a positive review of their items from the fake buyer account. "The positive reviews are like gold," retail security expert Brian Kilcourse said. "People are always looking for a new hole in the structure at Amazon to be able to put more fake positive reviews." In a statement to CBS News, Amazon said they investigate every report of customers receiving unsolicited packages and will ban all vendors and reviewers who abuse the reviews system.
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I think I suffered a side effect from this nonsense... Amazon appears to have deleted all product reviews under my account from before August of last year when I first reported to them that this had happened. I noticed this when my most recent Kindle book review went live and was looking back in my history. Oh well if that's the most damage that was done, I guess it's not too bad. The mystery packages stopped coming, and according to Experian there's been no weird activity.