Blackberry Torch 9800 - in the post for free??

sunlitsix

sunlitsix

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I really cannot get my head around this, woke up this morning to my mum asking if I had ordered a Blackberry. I haven't, nobody in the house has!
It's been delivered by DPD on a next day service, brand new fully boxed. :confused: As far as we know nobody has ordered one as a gift. Its got our full address on the packaging along with my Dad's name.
Orange wouldn't just randomly send out an expensive phone like this, would they??

Edit : I've checked over this receipt again, mentions Everything Everywhere Ltd in the top right corner so I assume it's come direct from them.
And the sim that comes with it is Pay Monthly.
 
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Great! I don't know how mobile contracts work as I've never been on one, but wouldn't they take any kind of payment before sending the phone out?
 
This happened to me before, also on T-Mobile (now part of them), turned out to be card fraud. They are basically testing the card by setting up a legitimate looking transaction. Once this succeeds they'll go for big ticket electronic items. Get in touch with the issuer for any credit/debit cards ASAP to see if fraud is happening.

T-Mobile were useless. If you do try to get in touch with them about it, make sure to stress that you want to speak to their FRAUD department, otherwise expect multiple 1/2 hour phone calls, talking to indian call centres which struggle to see the issue, and then you'll get cut off.
 
Well if its gone out in error the phone will soon be blacklisted :(

In with the phone is normaly a letter giving details of the contract and bank details- its worth a closer look, and its seems a good phone - Blackberry was round at work yesterday and it looked like the only decent phone they do
 
Its looking like a scam. The police are going to be contacted soon, some guy showed up at our house this morning at stupid o'clock claiming to be from City Link. My mum was more bothered about getting to work safely than messing about with this phone so just gave the package to him but she has said he was very convincing. :/
All that was on the letter with the phone was our full address and name/item number for the phone.
 
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Its looking like a scam. The police are going to be contacted soon, some guy showed up at our house this morning at stupid o'clock claiming to be from City Link. My mum was more bothered about getting to work safely than messing about with this phone so just gave the package to him but she has said he was very convincing. :/
All that was on the letter with the phone was our full address and name/item number for the phone.
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You just got scammed.

The "city link" guy is a scammer who has signed up your dad for a contract using his stolen details, probably online and used any old debit card ( not yours however just another one he has nicked ) to make up some bank details. The phone gets delivered to you ( and signed for... this is the very bad bit ) and you are ??? wondering whats gone wrong. You check your credit cards etc to find that nothing unusual has happened so you think its fine.

Remember most online shops just want a bank account set up for the DD.. they dont all want it to be the address of the place its being sent to. He may have also used your card and its just not showed up yet, this can also happen. The online retailer will just verify the details but not take money so some card issuers will not know its been done.

Next day or even later that day another guy turns up at some silly time while you are hopefully half asleep and claims to be from the courier, they usually have a uniform and some fake but convincing ID and tells you the delivery was a mistake and can he have it back. Most people will happily hand it over.

Now the scammer has a brand new phone that is untracable to him and as long as he changed the EMEI number or flogs it for cash before its blocked he is quids in.

Your dad however will soon get letters from the mobile company wanting to know why he isnt paying for his phone he ordered AND SIGNED for...

Under no circumstances should you ever give back a parcel you have signed for unless you have phoned the company or courier yourself and arranged a return. They will also have a work sheet or label to show you... your mum just gave the phone worth a few hundred quid to a random bloke who knocked on your door.

These scammers often case the house they intend to send the phone to and will use a company that gives AM or PM courier deliveries, they park up and wait till they see the driver drop it off... if he walks back to the van with no parcel they knows its been signed for. Next morning dead early they use their fake badge/uniform for whatever company it was and come calling. They can make it very convincing by describing the driver who dropped it off and what time he dropped it off at. Most people who were suspicious would be concinvced by this and hand it back. They are experianced confidence tricksters and just walk away if its too difficult, they have more lined up.

Good luck with this one. :( hopefully i am wrong but it has the signs of this kind of scam.
 
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Nope that's pretty much it, few other details aswell but I cant be bothered to type them all I'm still ****ed off.
But Orange are aware that my Dad didn't order any phone from them. The Police are also aware of what has happened and gave us an incident reference number which we also had to give to Orange.
 
sunlitsix said:
Nope that's pretty much it, few other details aswell but I cant be bothered to type them all I'm still ****ed off.
But Orange are aware that my Dad didn't order any phone from them. The Police are also aware of what has happened and gave us an incident reference number which we also had to give to Orange.
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Yeah should be ok then. :p
 
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