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Story summary
- Scammers mail white envelopes with QR codes to U.S. residents to fabricate delivery records for brushing fraud.
- 73% of Americans scan QR codes without checking, a habit the scammers exploit.
- Experts urge avoiding QR codes or phone numbers in such packages, verifying orders on retailer sites, using unique passwords, two-factor authentication, and reporting to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center.
