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[SilleeMee]

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@Venezia wrote:

@RescueLover - The email was from the retailer (absolutely) and the duplicate tracking numbers were on the FedEx site.  I would never click on anything from an unknown source.  And I always hover over the sender's address in an email to verify it.  I got the tracking number from the retailer's website, when I checked on my account.

(Too many years working in I.T.!  My sister-in-law calls me paranoid.  I call it being careful.)

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@Venezia 

That retailer might have used a stolen tracking number that was already on its way to another destination. It's a scam. Not sure how the scamming retailers do that but it has been done.

[Carmie]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Carmie wrote:

About two weeks ago, we got a small package addressed to a lady we didn't know with our address clearly shown on the label.

I looked up the company's name and address to see what it could possibly be inside.  The company was legit and they made dentures.

We googled the lady's name and figured out she lived about two streets away.

My husband drove to her house and asked if the package was hers.  It was.

We have received some crazy things in the mail, even scam items, but this was the first time, a neighbor we don't know, somehow got her package sent to our house.

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@Carmie.  From what  I read on the NextDoor app, this sort of thing happens all the time.   One poor women gets big, expensive items all the time for a person she doesn't know, most recently a huge case of disposable diapers.  You'd think the intended recipient would get this straightened out.

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I hope she didn't intend the dentures for me.  That would be really funny.

I, thankfully, have great teeth.  I still have every one except my wisdom teeth.  I have had one root canal with a cap on the last bottom tooth of the left side caused by a dentist who didn't do a filling correctly.

Other than that and about three fillings, My dental health is wonderful.  I have been blessed and I am very grateful.

She had her name on the package...Hmmm, I should have asked the my DH if she had teeth.  I never met her.

I would have rather have had the diapers.  My teeth are in better shape than my old lady bladder.

[RescueLover]

@Venezia 🌸

Good for You ! You’re being proactive and I think that’s smart !! 💕

[Venezia]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

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@Venezia wrote:

@RescueLover - The email was from the retailer (absolutely) and the duplicate tracking numbers were on the FedEx site.  I would never click on anything from an unknown source.  And I always hover over the sender's address in an email to verify it.  I got the tracking number from the retailer's website, when I checked on my account.

(Too many years working in I.T.!  My sister-in-law calls me paranoid.  I call it being careful.)

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@Venezia 

That retailer might have used a stolen tracking number that was already on its way to another destination. It's a scam. Not sure how the scamming retailers do that but it has been done.

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@SilleeMee - No, it wasn't a scam; not by the retailer nor by FedEx.  But there is a bug in their system somewhere.

I know that they reuse numbers, but there's supposed to be a long gap of time between doing that.

Anyway, my packages arrived safely today.

[Greenstreet]

Just yesterday informed delivery tells me a package is arriving today.
Funny, I've never ordered anything from this particular sender.

[Venezia]

@RescueLover - In the past year, I've gotten emails purportedly from friends or companies I've dealt with.

Especially the ones from "friends" can catch you off guard.  But, of course, when I hover over the sender's email, it's a long string of gobbledygook.  The worst country for spam offenders, for whatever reason, is the Netherlands.

LOL - I had to wonder why an electrician I'd used years ago would be sending me pictures!  

Spammers and hackers will try any evil, underhanded trick they can.  (I don't even maintain a contacts list for that reason, so they clearly got the names from hacked emails or someone else's contacts list.)