Re: The Wayfair scam explained:
To all the people bitching about #Wayfair being an “un-hinged conspiracy theory”. You are all a bunch of damned fools. Now I’m not 100% sure items being sold were proxies for child trafficking. Many nitwits on twitter are clueless to the concept of “contraband cloaking”.
Here is a rundown on how this scam works:
Say you have a Contraband item you want to sell. Well you sign up to be a “3rd party seller” on a site that allows this like amazon, wayfair, etc....
Now you need to market your wares. So you copy some items from other stores, you copy item descriptions etc from items that a low in price, but you raise the price to the price of the expensive contraband you want to sell. Then you add in a details that are easily searchable on the web or dark web.
When someone places the order for it, the main site processes your money for you, and provides you with the address etc... Then you send the mule to make the drop at the specified address after payment is received. The physical item never goes through Amazon/Wayfair.. warehouse
Another advantage for illegal sellers is because the price is set so crazy high that regular people will not accidentally order the contraband and alert authorities. Plus the 3rd party seller can always contact the buyer through the “Amazon/Wayfair” site and ask them passphrase. This “passphrase/answer” can be a something innocent sounding that is only located on the darkweb site.
A question like “Does the delivery driver need to be aware of vicious Dogs?” is asked of the buyer.
And the expected answer is, “No I have a poodle, he is friendly”
If the buyer doesn’t answer or answers with something that is not expected, then the seller can either cancel the order or order the “original item” and have actual “Amazon/Wayfair” drop ship it to the buyer because they “ordered it”.
This protects them against Law enforcement. The seller can always claim to be a 3rd party seller scumbag if this happens.
Not illegal, or if illegal it is better for them to face a basic fraud charge than a drug/human trafficking charge.
So it could be anything contraband. With those names, though...looks pretty bad.
Re: The Wayfair scam explained:
Thanks Grace. That was exactly what I was thinking, but you put it into words.