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Scam of the day – December 31, 2025 – Brushing Scam Is Back: How New QR‑Code Tricks Turn Free Packages Into Identity Theft Traps

by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 30, 2025 | Scam of the day

I first told you about “brushing” in August of 2020 after many people in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom reported receiving unordered packages of seeds sent from China. A wide variety of conspiracy theories quickly surfaced to explain...

Scam of the day – December 31, 2025 – Brushing Scam Is Back: How New QR‑Code Tricks Turn Free Packages Into Identity Theft Traps

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