Would you care to define that?
What I gathered from the Amazon Service Person is that the idea is for the company/fulfillment company? to build up their ‘reliability rating’ on Amazon. They send some cheap item they make/handle to (lots) of random people whose names/passwords they get from various security breaches. Then they log in as, in this case, Colin Boone, and leave a glowing review. (Fast delivery! Great packaging! Exactly what I wanted!) and thus other shoppers are deluded into ordering whatever from their company.
Apparently there’s no intention of actually making any money off the people they mail the random stuff to, they just want the package to be marked as a ‘confirmed purchase’ for the algorithm to be able to say “100s of satisfied customers!”
Seems weird to me. But so does a lot of Internet stuff.
Anyway, the rep said it’s evidence that my account/password was in one of those mass data leaks, so I should change their password, and probably a whole lot of other ones. Which is a nuisance, but I did it.
