Someone Received 10 Empty Parcels for ‘Lazada Orders’; Netizens Think It’s a Fake Order Scam

As controversial as it may sound, the 20th century is largely dependent on the masses’ opinions.

Or in this case, reviews.

You may have heard of movies flopping simply because they fared badly within the critics’ circle. Or new inventions that struggled in the market because reviewers did not like them.

It doesn’t matter how prestigious or handy your product may be. As long as you start off on the wrong foot with the public or professionals, you may as well slap a notice of closure on whatever you’re marketing.

Nobody is gonna pay attention to it, let alone buy it.

Someone Received 10 Empty Parcels for ‘Lazada Orders’

And that’s where fake order scams come in, though for the sake of this article I’ll go ahead with the ‘backstory’ first.

So just one day ago (26 March 2021), Reddit user SporeThrowawayACC wrote of how he had received 10 parcels from Lazada.

Which would hardly have qualified as headline news but here’s the thing:

One, the user did not actually buy anything and two, the parcels were all empty.

Apparently, this was not the first time either. According to a follow-up comment in the post, the user’s partner had received 10 such packages in the single course of a week.

That, despite her not making a single purchase on Lazada recently.

According to the user, there were two senders responsible for the 15 parcels.

Both have since vanished on the Lazada app.

Netizens Think It’s a Fake Order Scam

The revelation has led Netizens to perceive the act as a fake order scam, which is also known as “brushing”.

Simply put, it’s a procedure whereby sellers would create fake accounts to boost their own credentials on the site (through 5-star reviews). For reviews to be shown, however, orders have to be complete:

Which leads to the delivery of parcels to random addresses.

“Why not send to his own address or his friend or smthing?” one Netizen asked. “Why pick a random stranger on the Internet and risk getting reported?”

Apparently, there are only so many addresses that you can send parcels to before an order gets flagged.

As a result, sellers opt for random addresses to, for lack of a better phrase, tank their shit.

For the record, the aforementioned case is far from being an exclusive one as well.

Other Netizens have also reported receiving parcels that were sent to their addresses but under different names.

To know more about fake reviews, you might want to read this article.

Cash-On-Delivery Order

Elsewhere, it appears that cash-on-delivery order scams are also occurring.

Sometime last year, a Facebook user recounted how she had forked out $39 for a parcel she didn’t order.

To make it worse, the product was only worth $5.

Again, she was far from being the only victim, with numerous accounts of how they were scammed the same way.

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