Weird Amazon packages - totally creeped out

[Quirrelsotherface]

Has anyone else experienced this before? I've received about 5 parcels over the last week or so of items that I haven't ordered. Really random stuff, face serum, a cheap iPad cover and today some vitamin drops. None of it has any paperwork to say where it has come from and it's starting to really freak me out. I order from Amazon a lot and the only thing I can think that I've done differently recently is order from a 3rd party seller. There is no money missing from my account and nothing shows on my order history. Really creeped out

Have you spoken to amazon? DH had a weird delivery of several hundred (may have been more) pairs of pants. Never got to the bottom (!) of that.

Bonzo what happened to the pants??

My dad has this a lot, contact amazon and explain they should send a courier to pick up the parcels.

Not yet. Didn't think they'd be able to tell as it's just someone with my address iyswim?

I got some a few years ago. Mentioned it to my brother who commented 'I wondered where my stuff went! Turns out he had changed the default delivery address to mine

Are they in Amazon packaging? Any paperwork?

Any postmark? UK or abroad?

It sounds more like stuff from Wish than Amazon - just a thought.

There some sort of scam that covers this. Can't for the life of me remember what it is though.

Have you contacted Amazon. Like through their Facebook or Twitter? Seems to get the best results.

I think it can be so the seller can leave (fake) reviews on the stuff?

Isn’t there some sort of fraud that starts like this. A few small orders using your payment details and address then a big, expensive order to a new address? Contact Amazon ASAP and check these things aren’t being ordered from your account etc

It's definitely Amazon packaging but no paperwork, so much so I'd had a couple of parcels I just assumed were Christmas presents arrive this week. Just opened them, just fucking random stuff. Why would someone do that?!

There's nothing showing on my account order though, so I'm not paying for them as far as I can tell?

My DMIL managed to set our address as her default. Found out by posting the mystery books on Facebook 😀

There is a scam that does this called amazon brushing conversation.which.co.uk/money/amazon-prime-brushing-scam-explained/

Presumably the person paying will have a different billing address even if your name and address had been used as the delivery address so they should be traceable by Amazon whether done deliberately or more likely accidentally.

Good luck with getting your problem understood and resolved on their online chat!

I too wish to know about the pants.

Thank you everyone. Slightly reassured as it seems like it could be a scam which is more preferable to me than a stalker! I'll speak with Amazon.

avocadoze

That sounds exactly like what is happening, thank you.

It may be that someone is using someone else's account and is using your address. This happened to me and I never found out why. Basically someone hacked into my account, used my money to buy loads of random stuff (pens, football shirts, hats etc) but had them delivered to a random address on my account (my work place). I caught it early on so none of the packages were actually delivered. I had no idea what was going on. I was wondering if they do it so they can claim the package never arrived and claim the money back and somehow siphon the money off.

This happened to me (box of squishies) and my friend (box of 500 leather bracelets).

This happened to my DD. The orders were there, but they had been 'hidden'. I think Amazon now call it 'archived'. If you go onto your orders you can find them. I used it today because I ordered something for DH and didn't want him to see it if he went onto my account.

In my DDs case, stuff was ordered and delivered but it was sent to her old Uni address that was a couple of years old. She was charged though but got the money back from her bank. Presumably the stuff is still somewhere at the old address. The only thing we could think of was that someone just wanted to be a nuisance and cause her a hassle.

There's also a scam involving the use of things like Klarna, where they are effectively taking credit out in your name. In some cases they just steal the parcels, in others they will change the address after a while.

I'm not sure if Amazon accept Klarna, but loads of places do so it's one to be aware of nonetheless.

@DownWentTheFlag they were definitely not on DH’s order history. Initially he’d assumed (having not opened them) that I’d ordered some random bulky stuff and had it sent to his work (I do that quite a lot. Amazon couldn’t tell him anything due to GDPR. But they didn’t want them back either! We had about £2k of designer men’s pants in 3 very big boxes. We gave lots to family, kept some, sold some and donated the rest to a local homelessness charity for their clients.

Oh yes we've had this, for months! Amazon told us they were being sent from someone called Paloma and were weirdly insistent that we must know her. We don't! Haven't had a delivery since the last ones in the summer - baby shower decorations and a snorkelling mask 😂

The kids miss Paloma!

It is a scam so they can write themselves reviews. Amazon find the account, close it, and they pop up again a few months later under a different name.

Happened to my friend, random NEXT parcels arrived (he Never shopped there before) and he realised a Klarna account has been opened in his name to pay for those items. He did contact the police, NEXT and Klarna, it was sorted in the end but quite a bit of legwork.

Also, we still haven't worked out who benefits from this scam?

I’ve got 3 addresses in my amazon address book for when I’ve sent gifts direct from amazon - it could be that, so think who’s sent you something from amazon in the past, could be years ago.
If not, how long have you been at your address @Quirrelsotherface ?