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To wonder who is sending me these gifts and want them to stop?

57 replies

TempANew · 26/08/2024 22:04

Is there a way I can find out via Amazon? Most of it is through there

I keep getting random gifts with a message like ‘A gift for TempANew :)’

No name ever left. Nothing sinister. Random stuff. Wash set. Clothes. Cutlery. Small gadgets. Toys for DC. DVD’s 🤔

It is strangely unsettling.

This is all within days. I opened the first thing excited someone had suprised me. But nobody has claimed to have sent all this stuff and it is wildly out of character for everyone I’ve asked to A. buy it all, of course B. Lie and not confess

OP posts:
RunningJo · 26/08/2024 23:05

A friend of mine was a victim of identify fraud. They had various things arrive, including letters saying a credit account had been opened. All a bit of a faff to sort out closing them, returning items.

They were told of a scam that people order stuff to be delivered to someone else’s house, and before it gets to the letter box, the scammer intercepts it from the courier pretending to be the house owner.

All of this reported to action fraud and they were told about a website you can register on (they had to pay) whereby any credit agreement against your name and address had to be double checked.

Credit accounts can be opened very little info. They were also told to check their credit file with Experian.

So definitely report this to where they’re being sent from & I’d look to see if you can report to action fraud too.

TheClawDecides · 26/08/2024 23:08

Queenofheart · 26/08/2024 22:24

Omg this is happening at our house too! every day for about a week now, sent to my DSS! He’s 24 and getting weird things like a denture case, a ladies hairbrush, a tongue cleaner … all sorts, today he got a speaker, they’re not from his Amazon account and no money from his bank!?

he’s been online chat to Amazon and they don’t know.

strange

he’s been online chat to Amazon and they don’t know.

Well they should know.

They're the ones asking people to report brushing scams, which that clearly is?

sunseaandsoundingoff · 26/08/2024 23:11

RunningJo · 26/08/2024 23:05

A friend of mine was a victim of identify fraud. They had various things arrive, including letters saying a credit account had been opened. All a bit of a faff to sort out closing them, returning items.

They were told of a scam that people order stuff to be delivered to someone else’s house, and before it gets to the letter box, the scammer intercepts it from the courier pretending to be the house owner.

All of this reported to action fraud and they were told about a website you can register on (they had to pay) whereby any credit agreement against your name and address had to be double checked.

Credit accounts can be opened very little info. They were also told to check their credit file with Experian.

So definitely report this to where they’re being sent from & I’d look to see if you can report to action fraud too.

What's the website please?

I had a similar thing happen, they bought thousands of pounds of jewellery and phones using my credit score and a fake bank account set up in my name and address (the only details they had for me).

CoralKoala · 27/08/2024 00:07

How long have you been living in your house OP? Could it be a previous owner? Or perhaps a recently moved out house mate?

We had this happening to me and DH a few years back - received super random stuff from Amazon. It turned out the flat mate who moved out when I moved in forgot to change the address and got their stuff delivered to old address.
Looking at your list it sounds it could be an explanation if you have not lived in your place for long or someone used to live with you until not long ago.

Or perhaps a parent sending stuff to their child who moved in recently for uni but got the wrong address?

Hopefully a reasonable explanation and not some sort of scam

BrieHugger · 27/08/2024 00:17

Could it be from someone who’s sent you an Amazon gift before and forgotten to amend their primary address? I accidentally did this and had a few items delivered to my nephew, after I’d sent him a birthday present.

I can’t understand why Amazon don’t know who paid for the stuff, or is it more that they can’t tell you?

Trumptonagain · 27/08/2024 00:25

Sloelydoesit · 26/08/2024 22:15

Isn't it so reviews can be posted?

Yes, could be this, it's been going on for years.
Sellers send items to randon people in the hope they'll review the products, it's in the hope of getting their ratings up and more future sales.

HiFillyJonk · 27/08/2024 00:54

I got a random purple yoga mat sent from China that I didn't order. Over the coming weeks, multiples of the same mat arrived. I've never shown any interest in yoga and never got to the bottom of it.

DickEmery · 27/08/2024 01:02

Well it's finally happened. The machines have taken over.

It's not a person sending you these things OP : it's your phone. You enable AI Assistant, this is what you get.

JL690 · 27/08/2024 01:13

I would be worried. It's a scam to find out if the address is active, like the person named at the address really lives there and then the sender has a name and valid address to use for credit card applications etc. Then they put a postal redirect on the address so the false cards go to them.

Boxofstars · 27/08/2024 01:50

I wouldnt mind a few gifts.
A nice pair of Skechers shoes and Florentyna perfume i would happily accept.

a222 · 27/08/2024 02:18

not brushing, the items sound too expensive. the brushers usually send minor things like a single hair bobble or whatever.

a222 · 27/08/2024 02:20

DickEmery · 27/08/2024 01:02

Well it's finally happened. The machines have taken over.

It's not a person sending you these things OP : it's your phone. You enable AI Assistant, this is what you get.

if ai buys us presents that would be lovely

RunningJo · 27/08/2024 07:06

sunseaandsoundingoff · 26/08/2024 23:11

What's the website please?

I had a similar thing happen, they bought thousands of pounds of jewellery and phones using my credit score and a fake bank account set up in my name and address (the only details they had for me).

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hi, the website is https://www.cifas.org.uk/services/identity-protection

Identity Protection | Prevent Personal Fraud | Cifas

Fraudsters can acquire and use your personal details in a variety of ways. Find out how to prevent and respond to the growing problem of identity theft.

https://www.cifas.org.uk/services/identity-protection

Original poster
TempANew · 27/08/2024 07:59

If anyone is interested, I’m off to M&S this morning to ask in person if they can trace an order

This was behind my bin yesterday, in a package addressed to me. From M&S.

It’s a jacket I was looking at recently. But in store. I was browsing with my sister and my DC

She swears blind she has not sent it. I believe her. And she wouldn’t just send me a £69 coat! Nor would she then insist she hasn’t

To wonder who is sending me these gifts and want them to stop?
OP posts:
Doggymummar · 27/08/2024 08:04

That is weird 😕 🤯

TheEuropaHotel · 27/08/2024 08:07

Brushing scam as others have said

MissUltraViolet · 27/08/2024 08:07

Think I would be reporting it to the police at this point.

If it was 100% not your sister (ask her again and make sure she knows how serious this is for you now) and if it can't be your DC, then surely someone has to have been watching you to know you were looking at that jacket?

TheEuropaHotel · 27/08/2024 08:08

Oh hang on - just seen update! Thats quite odd

Mindymomo · 27/08/2024 08:10

Do You have paperwork with the M&S order, like order no. then they should be able to look into payment details and if there is a name connected with it. It is worrying, were you looking at jacket in store or online, not that it means anything to me, but could rule out someone tracking your viewing history.

FUBAR77 · 27/08/2024 08:12

Very odd OP!

  1. is the jacket your size?
  2. do you have any admirers
  3. are you struggling financially and these gifts could be from someone wanting to treat you but knows you wouldnt accept them out of pride?
wineandcheeseplease · 27/08/2024 08:14

Yeh that's weird now

RunningJo · 27/08/2024 08:14

Very odd.
I haven’t read all the responses so apologies if you have already done this, but I’d be contacting the police.
It’s one thing to be sent things via online, which is strange in itself, but this M&S thing is a whole new level of odd.

I hope you manage to get this sorted.

Trumptonagain · 27/08/2024 08:43

That is a bit strange that it would be an item of that expense and from M&S.

If you're sure your DSis didn't send it and she hasn't mentioned it to anyone else that would have given it as a surprise to you if you have one local ish I'd pop in with it and make enquiries as to where it can from.

ratherbesurfing · 27/08/2024 08:51

I got repeated random stuff once and it turned out that someone was ordering things for themselves and hadn’t changed the delivery address from something they’d previously had delivered to us.

They then reordered everything because it hadn’t arrived. We only discovered what was going on after a chance conversation.

MouseofCommons · 27/08/2024 08:53

Brushing for reviews. Report them. Although I'm sure you get to keep them.