Random Amazon deliveries...

[Bill]

I've seen threads before along these lines before but can't find one now... IIRC it's so they can generate reviews? But it's made me a bit paranoid.

I've had a couple of packages turn up from Amazon. The odd thing is that I don't have an Amazon account in my own name as I use my wife's, but they're addressed to me.

It's just an iPhone case and charger and a lady shaver, none of which are any use to me. I can't return them, so, apart from eBay*, any ideas what to do with them?

*Not sure I can be arsed...

[Skyedriver]

I got something from Amazon, name was someone totally different but my address.
Amazon said keep it. Which was nice.

[Bill]

Was it worth having?

[Scrump]

Bill said:

It's just an iPhone case and charger and a lady shaver, none of which are any use to me. I can't return them, so, apart from eBay*, any ideas what to do with them?

Ideas for what to do with a lady shaver?

[Bill]

I'll line 'em up!

What to do with a superfluous lady shaver...

[sospan]

If she’s superfluous why bother with shaving her?

[Bill]

And yesterday's offering, all the way from France...

[Charlie1986]

It’s sellers looking to get there ratings up by sales. It’s sent to random people but classed as a sale to vendor. The more sales further up the pecking order they go.

[QuickQuack]

The OP said he doesn't have an Amazon account in his own name though so being sent stuff by a seller to move up some seller list doesn't make sense.

Prank by a mate/foe trying to make you feel paranoid?

[Charlie1986]

It’s to random addresses. Account or no account. Details are bought online then the sales commence

[Fore Left]

Known as brushing.

https://conversation.which.co.uk/money/amazon-prim...

Had the same. Stuff sent to my son who was set up on my Amazon account. Was mainly chocolate bars. If you call Amazon with the package barcode they'll follow it up and it eventually stops.

[deckster]

My daughter received a few low-value items she hadn't ordered, but didn't bother to tell us. By the time Amazon suspended her account for suspicious activity, they'd ordered a couple of hundred quid's worth of vouchers, only half of which got stopped. Neither the bank nor Amazon were in the slightest bit interested in chasing up the other fraudulent transactions.

The hackers were clearly very well organised. We eventually worked out that they first of all got into her gmail account, set up a rule to automatically delete any emails from Amazon, changed her Amazon password, then ordered just enough small stuff to be delivered that the first few voucher orders didn't trip any alarms. She now understands why I kept badgering her to set up two-factor authentication.

I get that's clearly not what's happened here, as you don't have an Amazon account But just a warning to others that stuff arriving that you didn't order is a real red flag for something dodgy going on.