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Strange Package Advice

bonnielu — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:50:34 GMT

Package not ordered. Delivered today. Stress balls set of 4 called Squishy Toy. Package from Netherlands. I do buy from Zulily, Amazon, and Ebay. None of them had record of this package. No receipt inside and tracking numbers did not work with any carrier, UPS or USPS. Strange. Worried it is a scam. Or perhaps someone sent me an anniversary gift which probably is not the case.

Anyone have this happen? Kind of worried. I do watch my credit cards carefully.

Re: Strange Package Advice

Kachina624 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:04:29 GMT

@bonnielu A year or more ago, several people on the boards and even my sister reported receiving a pair of semi expensive sunglasses. I don't think anyone was able to track down the benefactor. Nothing ever happened that would indicate a scam or a demand for payment. I'd just forget about it.

Re: Strange Package Advice

bonnielu — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:09:01 GMT

Our anniversary, so I thought it might be a gift. But no evidence of that. I wanted to thank someone. The more I thought about it nothing made sense. They I thought it was a scam of some sort and I checked my credit cards, all two of them. Nothing. It is just interesting and no one has stepped forward to claim all this fun.

Re: Strange Package Advice

hsawaknow — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:09:10 GMT

@bonnielu wrote:
Package not ordered. Delivered today. Stress balls set of 4 called Squishy Toy. Package from Netherlands. I do buy from Zulily, Amazon, and Ebay. None of them had record of this package. No receipt inside and tracking numbers did not work with any carrier, UPS or USPS. Strange. Worried it is a scam. Or perhaps someone sent me an anniversary gift which probably is not the case.

Anyone have this happen? Kind of worried. I do watch my credit cards carefully.

2 years ago I received a package. There was no outside address or where it came from. I didn't order it and I had not entered any contests. Inside the package was a pair of brand new Ray Ban Sunglasses. It weirded me out to think someone had my address and mailed me these sunglasses. I never wore them but I still have them for reasons I cant explain.

Re: Strange Package Advice

bonnielu — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:10:43 GMT

Married 52 years, perhaps someone figured one of us needed relief from stress. LOL

Re: Strange Package Advice

lovesrecess — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:42:07 GMT

I would not worry about it...if your credit cards show no charges that aren't yours and there is no evidence of the origin of the pkg, just move on and chalk it up to an unsolved mystery

Re: Strange Package Advice

Venezia — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 03:05:05 GMT

@bonnielu- You're right; it is a scam and there's a lot of information on the internet about it. It's called "brushing". Just google something like "unordered package deliveries" or similar words.

Here's a link to a CBS news report:

Brushing Scam

Re: Strange Package Advice

Nataliesgramma — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 10:24:39 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
@bonnielu- You're right; it is a scam and there's a lot of information on the internet about it. It's called "brushing". Just google something like "unordered package deliveries" or similar words.

Here's a link to a CBS news report:

Brushing Scam

WOW...I had never heard of this before........

Re: Strange Package Advice

nyc1 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 10:32:45 GMT

@bonnielu HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. 52 years... how wonderful.

Re: Strange Package Advice

CLEM — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:56:20 GMT

My goodness! What will they come up with next?

Re: Strange Package Advice

Desertdi — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:02:55 GMT

Secret admirer ???????

Re: Strange Package Advice

chrystaltree — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:59:02 GMT

No, I haven't had that experience but I saw a couple of tv news segments about it. If I am remembering correctly; companies that sell the stuff online and on Amazon want customer ratings and customer reviews to boost sales. So, they send items out to free to people who never asked for them (they don't identify themselves) and then they post reviews under those people's names. All 5 star ratings, I'm sure. One couple received something like 40 packages full of stuff they didn't want/ask for/need. A local consumer fraud reporter did the story. Apparently, it's not illegal and since the company doesn't identify itself, there's no way ask them to stop.

Re: Strange Package Advice

viva923 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:25:14 GMT

as stupid as it may sound.

lately there have been people ordering things with stolen credit cards sending it to people's home (they don't know these people ), just sending, waiting for package to be delivered to these unknown people's home, so they can steal from front porch area.

i know this really sounds stupid and off the charts, off the grid, off the noodle, but could this be one of the off the walls scenarios????