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by arkitaip 2621 days ago
This could just be brushing, i.e. orders placed so sellers can get fake reviews:

* https://clark.com/scams-rip-offs/amazon-scam-brushing-warnin...

* http://mentalfloss.com/article/567488/beware-amazon-packages...

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That looks interesting. Thank for the links
And maybe a fake Name on Card (available with something like Privacy.com, not saying that particularly was used but virtual card services like that were used) was used to simply verify the transaction and get through Amazon's fraud detection.