Wtf! Woman lying she is my neighbour saying she’ll call police if I dont open door!

Have you got a ring doorbell? Maybe you should get one, or a cheap CCTV camera. It might put them off or you could record them if it keeps happening.

OP, your home is being targeted, this is not a coincidence. First get a Ring Doorbell installed ASAP. Secondly report to the Police. You do not know if these people are targeting vulnerable people as well and the Police may already be aware of these scammers. Everyone needs to be super careful opening their door to anyone these days.

I have a very incredible dog who insists on always opening the door with me & if he doesn’t like the look of someone trust me his demeanour shows that person that they need to run fast. He wont bark or growl you can just tell because he goes from I’m watching you to the werewolf in milli seconds. That’s why the kids are always told if you are opening the front door the door bouncer goes with you!

Now every delivery driver has met him and they now understand the correct protocol they have to follow……do not bang on the door use the doorbell because if you don’t you have already pissed him off and put him in a bad mood before the door has even been opened. My dog loves the quiet and anybody who ruins it will know about it. Once he gave me the dirtiest side eye ever all day just because I put music on in the kitchen whilst I was cooking and he was asleep. Back to the protocol, the parcel is to be placed on the step in front of the door and he/she must step back. You do not put your arm out for anything only we can if we have to sign. Last of all do not look at him! He sees that as being challenged 🤦🏼‍♀️ all the drivers love him apart from a couple who stay at the top of the drive. One good thing I don’t see anyone stupid enough to even think to enter 😂

I only realised the other day that the young Ned is the son in Two Doors Down.

I heard that exactly how it is in Still Game 😂

Mumsnet classics?

Sounds like a scam. Keep a record of this and if she/someone returns to demand the non existent parcel.

Seems to be a regular occurrence on here.....

Scammers can pop up anywhere. Next door was widowed in October. Twice since then she's had scammers over her roof, chimney. Luckily the first time DH intervened he observed one deliberately do some damage. He saw them off. A month later another van pulled up tried to pull the same stunt DH intervened again. They said they were just passing. We're at the bottom of a hill and the bottom of a cul de sac.

DH has a theory that they follow the obituary in the paper.

Yes OP I would ring the police to report both incidents and get some advice as it's very strange similar things have happened in such a short space and that she can describe you and your family.

I wonder if it's one of those things where if you open the door they would bust in and rob you? Sorry to scare you, but I would definitely make police aware and DO NOT open the door.

So glad I live in my lovely sane neighbourhood.

I recommend bad Russian when dealing with scammers. (I did Russian at uni, but that was more than 40 yrs ago.) Works a treat.

I can suggest a sweary expression, if you like: "Ot-yeh-bees!" (Stress on the last syllable.) It means "Go do something physically impossible to yourself!"

And according to your OP they didn’t give an address anyway so they couldn’t come regardless?

If that was her conversation, she didn’t give an address for the police to come to. Total scammer and not something the police would attend.

Just call the police yourself and film them. It's a scam.

But why did you have to ask your son who lives upstairs when you’d already determined that last time a stranger knocked on your door asking about a parcel?

Have you contacted 101?

I would, if only for advice and to possibly find out if this is happening to others

Make out you don't speak English. Extra points if you have in fact spoken to her in English before. Any level of half-remembered high-school Spanish or French should do, but again, additional points for if you can muster some basic Klingon or Dwarvish or similar.