Someone keeps sending parcels to my house, what is this??

She was trying it on in the street....???

A friend had credit cards taken out in her name (fraud) after some post was stolen. About 10. The thieves sent these goods to an address in a city far away, where they were presumably collected by the thieves. They were high value items.
How many of us would just give a home owner £10 for having a parcel sent there incorrectly, These are high value items.

1. contact the police - and ask for advice
2. check your credit cards etc
3. do not accept any other money
4. the fastest way to stop this is when she turns up - do not give any packages and say 'oh the police were looking for you.'
5. take action as you don;t want to be seen as 'in on it'

It would apply to any seller who buys their product from China or anywhere expensive to ship returns back to.

I havent RTFT so apologies but this sort of thing was on Radio 4 a few weeks ago where a random address was used as a return address for loads of children's lunchboxes sent out by Amazon 3rd party seller. The reason was that the cost for the seller of returning them to China was too much. Spose the same would apply to any non Amazon seller.

Take a screen shot of that Facebook page with her photo, just in case it disappears and report it to the police. This sounds like someone is using your address.

I had something similar happen to me - lots of parcels addressed to someone else with my street address.

It turned out to be someone running a dodgy business selling broken/worthless stuff and giving my address as the return address. (Can't remember how I found out - I think I looked them up on fb).

You can tell the Post Office not to deliver parcels for xxx name to your address. That's what I did.

A neighbour across the road had similar. She’s number 43 and the parcels were addressed to the person who lived at 34. She said it’s so the person who ordered can say to the company they bought the stuff from that it wasn’t ever delivered to their address so can they have a refund. She refused to take any more deliveries for them

Are they all from the same original sender or do they vary? And have you opened one for a cheeky peek?

Personally, I’d be suspicious that someone was having drugs posted to them but didn’t want to use their own postal address.

open your credit files and also pay for the membership - you don’t get a full idea of what is going on until you start paying for full use - someone was doing exactly the same thing thin and they had hacked into my credit file and were using my address and good credit rating to take out loans and credit cards and order all sorts on HP etc but getting it delivered to my house!! It’s a scam and you need to check exactly what is going on and don’t give ANY of these parcels to these people!! Send every single one back and tell the couriers to take them back!!

Put a sign up saying any mail delivered here for this address but so and so name, does not live here and I am not accepting these parcels. Please do not leave them.

This happened to us with a pair of trainers - it's a scam, using your address to buy goods on a stolen card.

• Check name on packages to avoid taking more in
• Put note on door for couriers saying packages not to be left unattended
• Tell the person you have reported it (if you see them again)
• Get an Equifax subscription for at least the next 12 months (£ unfortunately) to make sure your own credit is not being impacted in any way

Leave a note on your door XX DOES NOT LIVE AT THIS ADDRESS DO NOT LEAVE PARCELS FOR THEM. And put a big note on the inside of your door to remind everybody who answers the door to check the name and refuse if not one of your names.

She is probably running up debt using your address.

it might be that she's entered her own address wrong on Amazon... but the giving you money suggests scam.

My first thought was it's drugs, or equipment for producing drugs. Definitely report to the police.

1. start asking to check the name on parcels when they're delivered so you don't take them in at all (I had to start doing this because our next door neighbour has the same first name as me and similar surnames and we've both accidentally opened each other's parcels)
2. agree with people saying it's probably a scam if it keeps happening with large parcels (another neighbour has cards delivered to ours each birthday, Christmas, and mother's day but that's just because her daughter gets the house number wrong every single time!)
3. at first it did sound kind of funny, like it could be a practical joke or an episode of a sitcom where eventually you're taking in boxes that fill a room but if it's some random neighbour I doubt that very much
4. you can report your concerns and suspicions to UK's Home for Reporting Cyber Crime & Fraud - Report Fraud
5. we also have neighbours who refuse to take in any parcels for anyone else at all and have a note saying such on their door
6. start getting empty boxes of maddening size delivered to her address (don't do this)

Call non-emergency police and see what they say. Then, depending on how that goes, I'd be tempted to put something on a Facebook neighbourhood group if you have one, so other people are aware and maybe to shame/alarm her if it is a scam.

Never hand over parcels that have been addressed to YOUR address, even if somebody comes along to collect them. Deny all knowledge and tell them to jog on.

Either refuse to accept them in the first place or return to sender.

Sounds like paying you £10 is a bribe, and she is testing the water.

Dodgy! Anything could be in them!
Refuse them all!
And maybe get a return address off one of the parcels if they do look legit and ring them and tell them it's the wrong address.

Probably nothing to worry about. It’s most likely just to be drugs and weapons.