Amazon scams, any experience ?

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Anyone any experience ?
Today I have received a correctly addressed (to me) parcel for a item I never ordered, never looked at, and have no interest in.
The item on Amazon is valued at £150 plus. I thought this type of scam always involved low value items ? I have informed Amazon through the proper channels.
I have changed my Amazon password. There are no unauthoried puchases on my account.
Anything I have missed ? Any advice ?
 
Google came up with this
Watch for "Reclamation" Scams: If someone (or a fake courier) shows up to take the package back, do not give it to them. They are likely the ones who ordered it with a stolen card and are trying to retrieve it from your porch
 
Blimey !

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Yes, you can legally keep it. [1]
If you receive a parcel that is correctly addressed to you, but you never ordered or requested it, these are considered "unsolicited goods" under UK law.
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Wish it was something I wanted. :D
 
badlywornroy said:
Blimey !

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Yes, you can legally keep it. [1]
If you receive a parcel that is correctly addressed to you, but you never ordered or requested it, these are considered "unsolicited goods" under UK law.
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Wish it was something I wanted. :D
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What is it, might make figuring out sort of person is the [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER]
 
I once bought a used NAS years ago off ebay and when it came and i plugged it in it had massive amounts of medical records on it.
I called up the office and informed them and they said it had been stolen by a cleaner and could they have it back i said yes but i paid £200 for it
they sent me the money and collected the NAS, i then went on to ebay and opened a case against the seller about it being stolen and they also paid me out :-)

yeah sorry its wrong but i kept the cash
 
badlywornroy said:
Blimey !

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Yes, you can legally keep it. [1]
If you receive a parcel that is correctly addressed to you, but you never ordered or requested it, these are considered "unsolicited goods" under UK law.
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Wish it was something I wanted. :D
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Perhaps the best thing would be to hand it in at a convenient police station and get a receipt. Then if someone comes to collect the parcel you can give them the receipt and they can go to the station and collect it.

( A quick call to the station quoting the receipt's number, soon after the caller had departed, would be a fine, public spirited thing to be doing ;) )
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Perhaps the best thing would be to hand it in at a convenient police station and get a receipt. Then if someone comes to collect the parcel you can give them the receipt and they can go to the station and collect it.

( A quick call to the station quoting the receipt's number, soon after the caller had departed, would be a fine, public spirited thing to be doing ;) )
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I like your thinking. :D
As I said earlier I have already informed Amazon of the delivery. Unless I was certain any one calling to collect the item was genuine I would inform them I had already sent the item back to Amazon. They (Amazon) have always treated me very fairly in fact very generously i'e telling me not to bother to send items back etc. While it appears I am within my legal rights to keep the item (see below) I would happily return it to Amazon if they wished.

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AndrewFlannigan said:
Perhaps the best thing would be to hand it in at a convenient police station and get a receipt. Then if someone comes to collect the parcel you can give them the receipt and they can go to the station and collect it.

( A quick call to the station quoting the receipt's number, soon after the caller had departed, would be a fine, public spirited thing to be doing ;) )
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And what would that achieve?

I had a similar experience, with a firm I was working with. Order received and despatched, I thought there was something odd about it and did some checking.

Spoke to the elderly gentleman whose address it was going to, it turned out that a very nice young lady had stopped him in the street and spun him a yarn, he had innocently agreed to accept a parcel for her, she was going to collect it at 3 p.m.

I phoned the local police, they weren't even remotely interested. I suggested that they should send someone to the address at the arranged time of 3 pm, they said that they didn't know whether an offence had been committed or not, and if it had it may have been committed outside of their jurisdiction, but they would pass on the details to their specialist fraud department, they were the experts.

I arranged for it to be collected, so no harm done.

The police fraud department rang me 3 weeks later.
 
Garry Edwards said:
And what would that achieve?
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Well if you don't do something, nothing. If you do, there's always a chance that someone will get his or her collar felt...
 
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badlywornroy said:
Anyone any experience ?
Today I have received a correctly addressed (to me) parcel for a item I never ordered, never looked at, and have no interest in.
The item on Amazon is valued at £150 plus. I thought this type of scam always involved low value items ? I have informed Amazon through the proper channels.
I have changed my Amazon password. There are no unauthoried puchases on my account.
Anything I have missed ? Any advice ?
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Mate of mine had this happen.

It turned out that someone had managed to get a credit card in his name.

It took a while but he was caught and it turned out to be one of his neighbours.
 
Never mind, just tell the person who arrives to collect the parcel that you were confused about its arrival so took it to XXX police station. It does not matter to you if it is a long way and a scammer is not going to visit a police station.

Dave
 
Had something similar a couple of years back, although mine was only a cheap gadget rather than anything worth £150. In my case nobody ever turned up to collect it and Amazon didn’t seem especially interested once I’d reported it. I’d still keep an eye on bank statements and your credit file for a while though, just in case someone has tried using your details elsewhere. Changing the password was definitely sensible, and I’d probably enable two-factor authentication too if you haven’t already. The “someone will come and collect it later” angle is the bit that would concern me most. If that happens, I’d be very wary about handing it over to anyone without proper proof. Too many stories these days of people using stolen cards and random delivery addresses.
 
LuanaMiller said:
Had something similar a couple of years back, although mine was only a cheap gadget rather than anything worth £150. In my case nobody ever turned up to collect it and Amazon didn’t seem especially interested once I’d reported it. I’d still keep an eye on bank statements and your credit file for a while though, just in case someone has tried using your details elsewhere. Changing the password was definitely sensible, and I’d probably enable two-factor authentication too if you haven’t already. The “someone will come and collect it later” angle is the bit that would concern me most. If that happens, I’d be very wary about handing it over to anyone without proper proof. Too many stories these days of people using stolen cards and random delivery addresses.
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All sensible info Luana that I have implemented. However Amazon's two-factor authentication is a right ' pain in the a** ' My wife and I have both tried it before and ended up reverting back. However a little 'detective work ;) and I find the errant parcel was delivered under the exact same order number as a previously delivered correctly ordered and addressed parcel. As the days pass with no apparent interest from anybody in the mystery parcel I am more inclined to think this is a Amazon 'cock up ' as opposed to an attempted scam ?
 
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