Home Delivery Network Scam

ruby_eskimo

Hey everyone, just thought I would warn you about a scam that's just hit my dad today. He is a Littlewoods customer and had a parcel delivered today that he didn't order. My neighbour signed for it and then received a phone call from someone, clearly not my dad and sounding suspiciously like the delivery driver, saying they were coming to collect their parcel for *insert my dad's name here*. They kept pressing here for information and eventually hung up. Then later she had a knock on her door with someone sounding like the same man shouting through the letterbox asking for his parcel. Turns out it's a £500 phone and it's not the first time they've tried it. The delivery driver was from Home Delivery Network. So just to warn you all to check your home delivery accounts.

Shelldean

But how would the delivery driver or the person collecting the phone know the neighbours phone number???

maninthestreet

I don't think the delivery driver was in on the scam - he, and HDN, are just delivering a package as they've been asked to do. What normally happens in this scam is that someone claiming to be from the courier company turns up at the address the package was delivered to, saying it was mis-addressed and asking for it back. However, they are not from the courier company, they are part of the scam.

shellsuit

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

Hey everyone, just thought I would warn you about a scam that's just hit my dad today. He is a Littlewoods customer and had a parcel delivered today that he didn't order. My neighbour signed for it and then received a phone call from someone, clearly not my dad and sounding suspiciously like the delivery driver, saying they were coming to collect their parcel for *insert my dad's name here*. They kept pressing here for information and eventually hung up. Then later she had a knock on her door with someone sounding like the same man shouting through the letterbox asking for his parcel. Turns out it's a £500 phone and it's not the first time they've tried it. The delivery driver was from Home Delivery Network. So just to warn you all to check your home delivery accounts.

How would whoever it was know the neighbours phone number?

How do you know it was a £500 phone if your Dad never ordered it? Was it on his account bill?

What happened with the package after that?