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by cglong 1175 days ago
Sorry, could you go into more detail here? This happened to my mom several years ago, and we always wondered why.
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Steal CC info from person A.

Buy item from using junk email address and shipping address of person B.

On delivery day, wait near person B's home, and grab the package when UPS delivers it. If person B manages to get to the package first, scammer is only out some time.

Junk email and 3rd party mailing address - harder to track scammer. Of course, this ignores IP address and similar - smart scammer would also use Tor and other tools to obfuscate the online transactions.

One thing it could have been is the “brushing” scam

Creating fake orders to enable fake reviews for a product to be posted, boosting the product listing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)