More than 1,600 suspicious international parcels had been reported across the country in the past few days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
South Korean authorities are investigating a suspicious parcel sent from Taiwan to a residence in Cheonan, a city south of the capital Seoul, that contained an “unknown gas”.
Police and a team of explosive ordnance disposal experts were dispatched to the scene. An X-ray scan detected an unidentified gas inside and the parcel was taken for further investigation. However, none of them contained hazardous or poisonous substances. Most of the parcels comprised lip balm or other cheap items, and some were empty.in which sellers on e-commerce platforms send unordered products to people after illegally acquiring their personal information. The scam is said to boost sales and manipulate the sellers’ ratings.
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