Also this very interesting Planet Money episode #838 about people all over the world receiving weird packages full of random Chinese items that they never order

Also this very interesting Planet Money episode #838 about people all over the world receiving weird packages full of random Chinese items that they never ordered. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/27/606528176/episode-838-a-series-of-mysterious-packages https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/27/606528176/epis... Turns out they are phantom packages from vendors on Ali Baba and TaoBao gaming the review system. This is called "brushing". They managed to interview a "brusher". So the brushers have to make themselves look completely real during the buying process, hesitating, clicking links from different vendors and only after a while select the actual item they target. To get the "verified purchase" tag something has to be mailed somewhere. But instead of the actual item the vendor sends a package with random stuff and sometimes they send these to addresses of previous unknowing international customers to make it look more real.