An Amazon Mystery

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Need help/advice here.

We just received an amazon parcel today. It was redirected from our old address and it was an Xbox 360 controller addressed to my dad. He just went onto the Amazon site and there was a completely different email/pass on the site, which he can sign into..? Whoever this Chris person is, he had access to his amazon account (no one apart from our family has used that PC).

He proceeded to login to his amazon account to check his recent orders and there was a bunch of stuff ordered on the 18th of Nov, one was the controller.

I guess his account was compromised, no idea how, but also how did we get chris' details in the login? Was this the person who hacked the account?

Really confused, as is my dad.
 
not quite sure, but i think this is a mix up on amazons side. If it were an attempt to buy stuff but charge you for it surely they would have changed the delivery address?

Have you reported it to them at all?
 
All stuff was bought on my dads account, but we had access to someone else's account too.

On my dads account was the Xbox controller and 3 digital downloads.
 
Dad just logged in to this Chris' account again that was saved on our PC and it turns out my dad recognised the name from when he was out in Afghanistan, but this was years ago. His PC was never taken out there, so how did we ever get his account login and pass?

This is such a mind****.
 
irsean said:
Dad just logged in to this Chris' account again that was saved on our PC and it turns out my dad recognised the name from when he was out in Afghanistan, but this was years ago. His PC was never taken out there, so how did we ever get his account login and pass?

This is such a mind****.
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Maybe they shared a laptop that your dad had logged into with a cloud-style profile, like Chrome or Firefox.
 
Weird.. also my mum said that someone else from this area had amazon parcels that they didn't order too, so I guess someone somewhere is having fun..
 
Perhaps they are operating a courier-intercept scam?

Order to your house with your account, then wait in the car outside roughly when you think the delivery will arrive (easy with a consistent postie or delivery pre-12pm) and intercept the parcel.

It would be difficult to prove that there was an error, especially if he/she has obtained a copy of the signature for the account, from your bins.
 
Nah, doesn't sound likely. It was only a £20-30 controller. The other items were £60+ digital downloads, all of which are taken out of my parents account.

I think bledd's idea is more like what has happened. I guess my dad has at some point logged into his amazon account elsewhere and for whatever reason, it's saved the details onto that computer. Then someone has ordered from it.

It's still a mystery how we have someone else's account details on our PC tho.
 
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