UPS Card Fraud?

[herfrds]

We got a delivery notice in the mail from UPS, supposedly to pick up a package in Texas.
It was for a child care center.
The street name and town was correct but there is no such address on our street.

Aunt called this morning. She has gotten 3 such cards. Called the number on them and gave them her correct address because she waiting for a package.

Told her I thought it was fraud. Both of us called the USPS who delivered the cards. Our UPS man knows us and our addresses.

anybody else getting these weird notices too?

 

[Laurajean]

Haven't had that happen, but just yesterday I got an email from "FedEx" saying my package had been sent and that the tracking info was in the attached file, and there was a .zip file attached. I knew I didn't order anything, and I've also never seen an attachment like that from FedEx, so I deleted it. Pretty sure it was a virus.

 

[pbjmaker]

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I've been getting a ton of these lately from FedEx, UPS, DHL and USPS> I just keep deleteing them.
Sounds like the cards are another way to scam.

 

[bakerjw]

I get a good laugh at the wording of some of the scam attempts. Like "The United Federal Postal Agency" etc... At least they could find someone who could actually tell them what it is called.

 

[desertdarlene]

I've also been getting spammed by a lot of emails saying that I have a package coming. I clicked to open it once, but haven't done so, since. I am not waiting for any packages, either.

 

[Randy]

I'll tell you what happened to me one time. The ups truck pulled up and I went out to see what was up even though I hadn't ordered anything recently. Anyway it was a COD package for $200.00. I told him I didn't remember ordering anything and I dang sure didn't have a COD coming. He asked if I would like to inspect the package and I said yes and he got his box knife and opened it up and it was just full of chunks of styrofoam and wadded up paper. Someone was just trying to pull a con.

 

[herfrds]

Lady at the PO told me that the one that was sent to us was a correct address. Not.
She said she thought I was running a daycare. Excuse me? I'm not trained nor liscensed to do a daycare and am too blasted busy.

Talked to our Aunt and told her to be careful because it was stated on the card that it was a COD.

She was going to call UPS today.

What is weird is these are coming in the mail. Not emails.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

I got a phone call when I was expecting my son. I was expecting packages and they asked to verify the address. That they were fed ex. So silly me not thinking verfied the address. So when I was in the hospital and my sister in law was house sitting someone came to the house go serve papers. My sister in law said that person did not live in the house. They didn't care. Made her take it. It appeared to be some women with the same last name as me. My last name is extremely common. But it is my married name. They made me prove I was me and not this women. I had to actually call this lawyer and tell him he is a goof and who he gets to find his people. Then they wanted me to prove this women I didn't know didn't live in my house. It went on for years ! None stop phone calls for her , because of one person posing as fed ex who was going thru smiths perhaps. Not sure. But I would never ever give any info to anyone unless they prove to me before hand who they are. Maybe its just because my last name is sooooooo common ?

 

[lockedhearts]

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Someone who has same name as hubby owes a lot of CC debt, they somehow got our address. It was from CitiBank, we have NEVER had any CC with CitiBank and do not owe on any CC at all. When I called, they gave me the last 4 of the social and Birth Year, it is was off from Hubby's. This was a collection agency and it got sold to at least 4 other agencies before I finally threatened to get my attorney involved if they did not take our address off of it. I even googled and found the name attached to 5 other addresses in our area, I finally wrote all the companies a letter attached the print off with the other addresses and told them to do their job and check those out for the right person. Sometimes it may be computer or human error, sometimes things like this are scams.

 

[Judy]

For 3 or 4 years, bill collectors called me, looking for the person who used to have my (new) phone number. I finally looked and she was in the phone book with a different number -- I am also listed. No similarity in name. One was trying to deliver a wheelchair.

But my favorite was a puppy selling scam my son went through. They kept calling, once supposedly from an airport where they "needed" $1800 or so for shots -- or they would send the puppies to the ZOO. Excuse me, you drop unwanted puppies off at the ZOO? Something new?

I probably delete 15 emails a day without opening them. Glad these programs are pretty good at putting them in the spam folder instead of my inbox. There's usually at least one that says my check is waiting, or it is from UPS or similar. Funny, when I get a real email from UPS, it goes to my inbox, not my spam folder.