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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. How of that produces? Monica?

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Speaker 2: So you told us this morning about something you got

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Speaker 2: in the mail yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It's a scam, but it's a weird one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very strange. I got a tracking notification yesterday Australia

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Speaker 3: Post and I'm like, oh, someone's sending me a Christmas gift.

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Speaker 3: I've got no idea what this is. I'm not expecting anything.

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Speaker 3: I haven't ordered anything. Tracking is completely legitimate. I get

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Speaker 3: a message from my building management saying come and pick

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Speaker 3: up the package, and I'm like, oh, okay, what is this.

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Speaker 3: Go in and it's this sort of like Amazon looking parcel.

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Speaker 3: I open it and it's scrap material, just nothing in there,

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Speaker 3: no note, no nothing, just my address, my phone number,

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Speaker 3: everything but scrap material in this package. So I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: this is a scam.

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Speaker 1: But what kind of scam.

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Speaker 3: I think it's something called brushing, which is like they

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Speaker 3: send these parcels out with no real like no one's

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Speaker 3: made the order, right, But it's to get fake reviews.

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Speaker 3: So they write themselves a positive review saying you know,

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Speaker 3: this person received this in the mail and they loved

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Speaker 3: it and whatever, and they've got all your details, so

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Speaker 3: they've verified details.

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Speaker 1: So they can say we've got a stack of customers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they could fake that, but they can verify that

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Speaker 1: they've got customers.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, this.

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Speaker 4: Scrap material just rags, I presuming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a couple of odd socks in it,

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Speaker 3: but it was like really really odd stuff, so sort

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Speaker 3: of like half a pair of leggings and like an

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Speaker 3: odd sock and then just like scraps scraps of material.

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Speaker 3: So really freaked me out.

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Speaker 2: Why would so, Yes, they can say they've got customers,

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Speaker 2: but wouldn't it cost them to mail this stuff out?

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Speaker 1: And how'd they get your phone number?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. I guess it's out there,

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Speaker 3: I mean from previous orders or something like that. I

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Speaker 3: don't know whether maybe the same company has this information

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Speaker 3: and they just keep it on file.

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Speaker 1: And knowing you you googled.

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Speaker 3: This, I did. That's how I found it. So I

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Speaker 3: was like, Okay, so this has happened before. I found

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Speaker 3: like a Reddit thread and sort of followed that along

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Speaker 3: and then found an article on nine and yeah, it

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Speaker 3: seems to be happening a lot at the moment around Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but this is a timely warning, just like you

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Speaker 4: gave us a warning about the about the methanol poisoning.

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Speaker 4: This happened to you, and thankfully you're okay through it.

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Speaker 4: Monic is becoming like a bit of a consumer watch

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Speaker 4: dog now the brushing scam, we could have Monica's consumer

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Speaker 4: watchdog report.

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Speaker 2: But in this weird scam, you're not being scammed. They

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Speaker 2: haven't taken anything from your data somehow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean at the moment I just changed all my passwords,

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Speaker 3: I was like, Gmail, banking, everything, I'm just going to

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Speaker 3: change it all. And then I'm covering myself a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's all you can do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two step for verification on all your banking apps

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Speaker 3: and things like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're marrying a Nigerian prince, but that's separate

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 3: Yea from it's really hard amount and he speaks so.

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Speaker 1: Beautifully on the phone.

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Speaker 4: Does he look like Asher, Yeah,