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There was a great sky talk at Defcon this week about groups that literally have catalogues of stuff people choose from, order, then get PayPal refund for the 5 star reviews (multiple merchant sites not just Amazon). Some of it is pretty expensive stuff (3D printers, batteries and more). I don’t have an answer for a fix but I definitely just ignore reviews now.

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Not surprised at all. My sister in law apparently has been getting free stuff/refunds for all sorts of stuff.

From what I have been told it’s a network of groups coordinating on FB. Seems quite sophisticated.

She has gotten 1000’s of dollar of items.

And yes they post items saying who is interested in this item or that and then people respond saying yes or no.

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