Woman warns of new scam involving the delivery of mystery DPD packages

• A woman has taken to TikTok to warn people about a ‘clever’ new scam
• She said ‘can’t believe how advanced scammers and fraudsters are becoming’

A concerned woman has taken to TikTok to warn people about a ‘clever’ new scam that the father of her best friend fell victim to.

The video by @shonelise that explains what happened, has been seen by over 213,000 people in less than a week, with more than 200 comments – a lot of which are people saying they have also experienced the fraudsters technique.

She said ‘I cannot believe how advanced and clever scammers and fraudsters are becoming these days.

‘I was chatting to my best friend on the phone the other day and her doorbell went so she had to go and get it, it was a parcel for her dad, it had her dad’s name on it, there was nothing suspicious about it at all.

‘Her dad was at work and she was working from home so she picked it up, took it in, didn’t think anything of it.

A woman has taken to TikTok to warn people of a new ‘clever’ scam that her best friend was a victim of

Explaining the parcel was delivered by DPD, she continues ‘literally not even five minutes later, another ‘DPD driver’ knocked at her door and was basically like ‘oh sorry, a parcel just got delivered here by mistake, it needs to go back to Sky, can I have it back?’

‘My best friend was like no, it literally has my address on it, it has my dad’s name on it, you’re not taking it back it’s clearly for this address.

‘The guy was giving it back, like “no I need it back” and she said “no it’s our parcel, if there’s anything wrong with it, we’ll contact Sky ourselves and sort it out that way”.

‘He then left in like a huff, obviously my best friend thought this was really weird so her and her mum opened the parcel as you would because they wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

 ‘In the parcel was an iPhone 14 with a Sky sim card, her dad hadn’t ordered the phone, so someone had obviously taken out a contract or paid upfront for the phone and had it delivered to their address.

The TikToker continued ‘So fast forward, her dad comes home, he rings Sky to be like, “this phone’s been delivered, I didn’t order it so can you look into it? Someone’s obviously fraudulently used my details”.

‘So, they looked into it and low and behold, the account that the phone was ordered from, there was actually two phones that had been ordered and one had been delivered the Friday previous and nobody was home at that time.

‘It said on their system that someone had intercepted the delivery on their driveway. 

The video by @shonelise which explains what happened, has been seen by over 213,000 people in less than a week, with more than 200 comments – a lot of which are people saying they have also experienced the fraudsters technique

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‘So someone was obviously waiting at her front door to collect this parcel and because they got lucky that time, they thought oh let me do it again.

‘But this time they obviously weren’t tracking the delivery properly because they were too late and he had a plan b obviously and had a f****** DPD t-shirt on to pretend that he was also working for DPD and trying to take the parcel back.

She admitted ‘It’s pretty clever to be fair but it’s also quite annoying. Something similar happened to my boyfriend a couple of months ago.

‘We were literally in bed and he starting getting random emails saying that someone had taken out a BT TV package with a TV and sim cards and stuff and they were getting delivered to his address.

‘The only difference with that one was that they actually did use his email address and phone number.

‘We thought it was someone trying to pull a prank or be an idiot.

‘Moral of the story is, be wary of your details and of fake DPD drivers taking parcels off your doorstep because these scammers are getting techy as hell.’

Some viewers were confused by the scam, so the TikToker explained in the comments:’Each time they do it they are obviously using the bank details they have stolen from one person and the name/address of another person. 

‘They then use the stolen bank details to fraudulently order phones or whatever to the other persons address and intercept the delivery before it’s handed to the resident. 

‘They’ve then got a new phone and if the fraudulent use of bank details is reported’

‘It will be traced back to you, not them (as they have ordered it in your name to your address) and they walk away Scott free.’

Other commenters said they had a similar experience, with one writing ‘Omg this happened to my dad!! 2 phones and 2 Apple Watches. Except the person who did it made sure they were outside our house for the delivery!!!’

Another warned ‘This happened to my dad years ago! We think the culprit found an old little woods catalog in our wheelie bin! Be careful what you throw away!’

Meanwhile, someone else added ‘Omg this happened to me with eBay a few years ago!! They tried to buy 2 of them electronic hoovers at like £200 each but used my card and address.’

One commenter who claims she works in a phone shop chimed in with ‘this is happening wayyy to often now it’s insane! Seen this twice in the last month’.

Another added ‘I work at head office for a massive telecoms company. we see this all the time and it usually gets worse around this time of year.’ 

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