London Mint Office scam????

davidmcn

Pollycat said:

Shortypie said:

A week or two later I happened to be heading out the door when the postman tried to deliver another one of these parcels, I refused delivery and he said he would refuse all of them in future.

Can a postman actually refuse to deliver mail addressed to someone just because the recipient says they'll refuse to accept future deliveries?

Strictly speaking, probably not, but it saves time compared with having to ask for each item.

davidmcn

Shortypie said:

davidmcn said:

Assuming it really is the London Mint Office you've been dealing with, they're long-established and part of a multinational coin empire so it would seem unlikely they've started something as blatantly scammy as inertia selling. Though I'm not sure what the scam would be if perpetrated by a third party.

Any clues from the IP addresses?

IP addresses don’t mean anything to me

Do you mean in general? If so, then ask somebody who does understand how to look them up - if for example they correspond with a range used locally by your ISP, that suggests the order could have come from within your household. If it's somewhere e.g. overseas, then something odder is going on.

Had there ever been previous emails between your son's address and your old email address?

Shortypie

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Shortypie said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

It sounds like it's possible that the email accounts concerned have been compromised, so the first thing to do is to change passwords on those and any other accounts or websites where you use the same password.

Ehhhhh got to admit I’m not great at using different passwords for different sites  I’d forget them.

You can employ various tactics to generate different passwords for various things, whilst keeping them memorable. Such as using two random words, some capital letters, a number and character, where the words are linked to the site in question.  If you don't want to do that, get into the habit of changing the few passwords you do use frequently, e.g. monthly.

Google tells you if any of your login details have been part of a data breach as well. Click on your profile pic in the address bar, click the key icon and do a scan of saved passwords.

I'm confident these coins are a result of an email breach.

I’ve just looked on my iPhone under passwords and apparently a couple have “appeared in a data leak”. Would have been really helpful to get this as a notification at the time it took place  looks like I have an evening of changing passwords ahead of me. 

Doesn’t really explain why specifically there are coins being ordered . . . 

Aylesbury_Duck

I think others may have guessed - perhaps it's just a prank rather than a scam of some sort, but at least you know to change passwords and up your security.