In recent years, fast fashion has been taking a big hit with fraudulent returns, causing thousands of dollars to be lost. One retailer in particular to fall in the trap is PacSun, which filed an investigation to find out why the company is facing hundreds of returns without the actual product. Turns out Dubai-based messaging and social media app, Telegram, has a whole lot to do with it. 

For more on this, KCBS Radio's Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Liv Young, a reporter from The Wall Street Journal; she wrote a fantastic piece about this in this week's edition.

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In recent years, fast fashion has been taking a big hit with fraudulent returns, causing thousands of dollars to be lost. One retailer in particular to fall in the trap is PacSun, which filed an investigation to find out why the company is facing hundreds of returns without the actual product. Turns out Dubai-based messaging and social media app, Telegram, has a whole lot to do with it. 
For more on this, KCBS Radio's Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Liv Young, a reporter from The Wall Street Journal; she wrote a fantastic piece about this in this week's edition.
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