Have I been scammed?

abigailsrevenge

I had a phone call on Thursday from a company saying an internet order couldn't be despatched because it wasn't ready - and the message said 'Oh, this is for Julie Greenwalt' That's not me so, being a good and honest ex-convent girl (!) I rang them back to say they had the wrong number. The guy answering replied that he thought he'd been scammed (had already happened to his company ten times this week!)
Another phone message later in the day was someone from 'Provident' looking for Julie Greenwalt. Again, I rang them (perhaps stupidly?) to say they had the wrong number. Became a little concerned so reported to local Crimestoppers who said not to worry.
The next day a parcel arrived for dear 'Julie' from Beautyexpert.co.uk. I asked Crimestoppers to update their log and returned the parcel to the company as suggested.

Question is - should I be worried???!!!

omen666

Well first I am confused as to why you are ringing crimestoppers?
Secondly sounds like ID fraud

abigailsrevenge

Well - I wanted someone to make a note of what was happening! By the way - I got two more parcels today. Sent them back with the postman!

westiea

phone police - definitly I.D. fraud.

nzmegs

Keep the parcels!! If they are stupid enough to send the items to your address instead of their own then they deserve to lose the items.
Check your bank accounts though as they could have those details too.

PZH

nzmegs wrote: »

Keep the parcels!! If they are stupid enough to send the items to your address instead of their own then they deserve to lose the items.

For starters the OP isn't "Julie Greenwalt" and secondly what about the innocent businesses sending the parcels - do they deserve to lose them ??

abigailsrevenge

Thank you, Phoodless. That's just what I thought! By the way, I've refused about another 5 parcels. The postman's on the case and he checks before bouncing things back to their originator. I've kept a note of all dear 'Julie's' activity - one company said the order came from a PC in USA.

I still can't work out how they make money? Must be worth doing, I spose! I keep checking all my accounts and have changed all passwords on the internet sites I use. Oh - and some dear soul tried to use my ebay account. Thankfully they stopped it!

myrnahaz

If it was ID fraud, then the fraudster would be charging the OP but keeping the goods for themselves - this creep is sending goods to the OP. It's certainly not a coincidence that someone has your home address PLUS home phone number. Could there be someone you were close to, but have fallen out with, who's doing these things for spite?

Ivory_Tinkler

It is a bit odd because usually with ID theft the fraudster uses stolen credit card details but has the orders sent to them instead of the genuine cardholder. They've nothing to gain by having stuff sent to the cardholder unless they can intercept it in some way. That's why some companies ask that you have your order sent to the cardholder address instead of a different address (this happened to me on a couple of orders I made before christmas for computer games).

abigailsrevenge

When I spoke to Crimestoppers to register my concern they said it is possible for a third party to make a profit from the deal - don't know how though!

As for falling out with someone - well, not as far as I know, and would they have access to a PC in America (where my Christmas flowers came from). They went back, of course.

It's all very strange. Like I said in my first post (I think) the police didn't seem too concerned about it. The Post Office manager says it happens quite regularly but "they give up eventually..." Here's hoping.

DCFC79

abigailsrevenge wrote: »

When I spoke to Crimestoppers to register my concern they said it is possible for a third party to make a profit from the deal - don't know how though!

As for falling out with someone - well, not as far as I know, and would they have access to a PC in America (where my Christmas flowers came from). They went back, of course.

It's all very strange. Like I said in my first post (I think) the police didn't seem too concerned about it. The Post Office manager says it happens quite regularly but "they give up eventually..." Here's hoping.

i still dont understand where the profit is, the police weren't concerned as its not a police matter or i dont see it as 1