Really odd DPD Local "scam" maybe? Unexpected package from an online pharmacy, says its delivered, no-one actually delivered anything, its weird!

ianh

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Hi All,

My "SCAM" spidey-sense is tingling all over this one but I can't figure this one out. I was expecting a small Envelope sized packet from eBay and yesterday I get a DPD Local (the Blue version of DPD) "missed Delivery" note through my door with a pre-printed tracking number on it. So I go onto the DPD Local website (its a real website) at about 1730, type in the pre-printed tracking number and it says the parcel is from Weldricks which is an online pharmacy, so this is 100% definitely not something I'm expecting. The tracking says they'll try again the next day (today) so I head off to work.

This evening there is no parcel or another "attempted delivery" note so I check the tracking again. It now says that at 2030 last night I changed my "Safe Delivery location" and that at 1330 today the parcel was delivered to my "rear porch".

I never went onto the DPD Local website at 2030, I never updated my "safe Delivery location", I have no "rear Porch" (live in a terrace with zero access to the rear as its bricked up), my door cam has no-one near the house at 1330 doing a delivery (or 5min +/- other than passers-by), none of my neighbours have seen anything and in the end I'm still not expecting a parcel from a pharmacy.

I'm trying to figure out what's going on and, as mentioned, my spidey senses are screaming "ITS SOME KIND OF A SCAM" at me but if it is then I've no idea how it works. No money has left any of my bank accounts, I've not left any personal details like phone No's or e-mail addresses etc with DPD.

The closest I could come up with is this type - https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/urgent-warning-over-frightening-new-28025139 - which 'may' be something close where someone else whose bank has been hacked has a parcel sent to any other address (which would be me in this case) only for a fake DPD person to intercept the parcel once its been delivered "OH sorry, this has been addressed wrong, please give us the parcel back" etc.

So GD, what the Hell and whose letterbox do I need to poop through to figure this out?
 
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The real person expecting the parcel will also have the tracking, they could have updated the details themselves after seeing a failed delivery attempt.
 
So you got something you wasnt expecting delivered to a "real location" on your property from an online pharmacy but it never was delivered but someone had access to your DPD account?

I guess youll have to take it up with DPD or that online pharmacy

poo through your own letter box to deter future potential scammers.
 
This is a story as old as the hills. The odds are a local addict has ongoing methadone prescriptions with multiple doctors and is trying to de-risk or cut down travelling by ordering online and having to get them delivered to a false name at a real address (your house, almost certainly among others).
 
There's a chance that this could be legit, just a series of unlikely events happening together, bad gps, address, system bug and driver mistake. Any picture of the safe place?
 
They put the sorry we missed you through the wrong door, they delivered to the right door. Seems the most likely explanation.
 
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Me, reading the thread title.
 
tom_e said:
They put the sorry we missed you through the wrong door, they delivered to the right door. Seems the most likely explanation.
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Thats exactly what I thought at first, but none of the neighbours have seen anything and there's no other houses with my number or similar on the estate I live on i.e. there's no 5, 50 or 500 XYZ road as the naming/numbering convention is 1-100 is XYZ Rd, 101-200 is ABC Rd & 201-300 is DEF Rd etc which is why I started thinking outside the box, maybe a little too far :D
 
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