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[GHOBHW]

I remember reading something like this, used to boost reviews on Amazon, they'd send out random *&%^$ to random addresses to get postage proof, then can add a real verified review onto whatever product theyre pushing.

so you may just be a unknowing middleman for some guy somewhere to get reviews on some random product hes selling

oops read further up and someone already mentioned this

[Dopey]

I use this for some things

https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-male-en-uk.php

[Richard]

Over here also there are instances of "parcel fraud": parcel to an existing address, yours, but an incorrect name, not yours. Shopping secure trustmark thuiswinkel.org https://www.thuiswinkel.org/en/ gives the following advice:

• let the webshop know asap your address has been misused
• don't ignore an invoice or reminder if you get one but contact the issuer asap
• but never pay, the webshop has to establish unequivocally it was you who ordered the goods
• contact the webshops trustmark, if any, if the issue is not resolved
• return goods you didn't order (if you know the sender)
• report an attempt at fraud to the police

Richard

[Dopey]

^^^ is bad advice, don't contact them, then they have confirmation they have your addy, and they will possibly glean more info from correspondence with you, right now you have lost nothing, dont give them more info

[Alan Drover]

Thanks Dopey. I have no intention of contacting Amazon and giving away my name and email. I'll wait and see what happens and if nothing after a few months I'll probably open the package. I don't do social media or eBay or on line banking but of course when I ring up suppliers I have to give credit card details. I very rarely buy on line because I find it such a faff.
I've now been in contact with Action Fraud but I apparently already have an account with them but I couldn't remember my memorable word from decades ago so I set up a new one. They've advised the same and I have to ring them back to access my account so this issue can be added. They're interested even though no money has been lost but I'll just check my credit card account tomorrow.

[Dopey]

You can open the package by law, to find out who the true owner is, I used to be a courier, and you could open up suspicious packages, I once found a package with bars of a load of weed in it from Amsterdam, I handed it in to customs, and I was a suspect lol.....

[Alan Drover]

Action Fraud advised me to contact Amazon and after baffling their electronic thingy it put me through to a human to whom I gave the details. He said I could keep the package but I'll wait a bit before opening it. Action Fraud have included it on my account and will link it with any other similar reports. They told me Amazon deliveries are only done by marked Amazon vans.

[Simon1959]

Sounds like things may have improved somewhat. I was the victim of a scam some years back (Series LR related) and I logged it and then contacted Fraud Inaction and they couldn't have been less interested. The police diverted me to Action Fraud, even when the scammer was active and could have been caught in the action. Woeful...

[Alan Drover]

Now the moment you've all been waiting for. I opened the parcel a couple of days ago. Inside was (fanfare)....... a telescopic feather duster!!!!!! I presented it to a bemused Mrs. D. Randy L. Collings doesn't know what he's missing.

[Worf]

Ken Dodd would be jealous.

[diffwhine]

Are you telling me that we have waited all this time and put up with this whole thread (apart from the forum going belly up up) for a feather duster?

 

Ok - its a telescopic feather duster, so presumably the deluxe model, but you could have lied to us and told us that it was a box of conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone or something equally worthwhile and interesting.

And here's me thinking of stopping by earlier in the week to have a look...!

I think I need to get out more...

[Alan Drover]

I'm awaiting the next mystery package. Sorry to disappoint you Mark.

[kev]

Ken Dodd would be jealous.

Ken Dodd’s Dad’s dog’s dead.😁

[Dopey]

If you are ever the victim, of a banking scam or your not sure ring 159 (diagonal on your mobile phone) and they will give you a drop-down menu of all the banks, chose yours from the menu, and you will be put straight though to your bank easy