Toss Up scam or not

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22 May 2021 at 15:11 #546337
Harry Wilkes
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Received email yesterday afternoon saying Yodel had tried to deliver a package at 14.05 which I found strange as I had been in since 13.00 so having placed an order with Macc on Thursday with 3-4 day delivery is it a scam or was it my package ? After some detective work checked my ring door bell no alert to back that up reviewed CCTV which proved no one had been to my door so treated the email as you do with a scam.

My package arrived this morning bright and early

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22 May 2021 at 15:11 #36429
Harry Wilkes
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22 May 2021 at 16:14 #546355
Dave Halford
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I had that a few weeks ago, the sender had tagged the wrong tracking info to my parcel.
22 May 2021 at 17:44 #546377
Martin Connelly
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Part of the current problem is that in order to avoid Covid contamination most delivery firms are not putting notes through letterboxes, instead relying on email, SMS etc. Leaves space for the scammers to step into making your yes/no situation understandable. I would expect a genuine email to have some detail regarding the package details that a general scam email would not.

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22 May 2021 at 18:07 #546383
Harry Wilkes
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Comments about Yodel aside the chap who delivers to me is OK like this morning it was quite early when he came and I was in the bathroom so I looked through bedroom window tell him I'll be down he said he could get it it the letterbox job done so I returned to making myself presentable

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22 May 2021 at 19:12 #546402
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Posted by Harry Wilkes on 22/05/2021 15:11:28:

Received email yesterday afternoon saying Yodel had tried to deliver a package at 14.05 which I found strange as I had been in since 13.00 so having placed an order with Macc on Thursday with 3-4 day delivery is it a scam or was it my package ?

Am I being thick? (no need to answer) but I don't see what the scam would be. What would be the advantage to the scammer?
22 May 2021 at 19:39 #546410
not done it yet
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Posted by Peter Greene on 22/05/2021 19:12:41:

Posted by Harry Wilkes on 22/05/2021 15:11:28:

Received email yesterday afternoon saying Yodel had tried to deliver a package at 14.05 which I found strange as I had been in since 13.00 so having placed an order with Macc on Thursday with 3-4 day delivery is it a scam or was it my package ?

Am I being thick? (no need to answer) but I don't see what the scam would be. What would be the advantage to the scammer?

Presumably, were one to respond, the opportunity to scam the individual is clearly a possibility.
22 May 2021 at 20:12 #546415
Michael Gilligan
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Posted by Peter Greene on 22/05/2021 19:12:41:

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… but I don't see what the scam would be. What would be the advantage to the scammer?

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The link that I posted on the other thread, this morning [to the Wired article] describes one scenario:

**LINK**

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=172983&p=1

That was SMS based … but the scammer scum will try anything.

MichaelG.

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P.S. __ https://www.yodel.co.uk/privacy-cookies-policy/fraud

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 22/05/2021 20:15:06
23 May 2021 at 21:11 #546670
old mart
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It was probably a genuine mistake as Dave Halford thinks.
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