A credit card thief throwing the smokescreen your way (or were waiting to snatch it from your mailbox before you).
-OR-
An anonymous suitor biding their time.
Which is something that they only found out when they went to pick it up but by then it was done. The likely just moved or another stolen card and address.
I had scammers do something similar. Someone sent two different DoorDash orders from CVS to my house one after the other. They each had a cheap soda and a $150 visa gift card with the backs scratched off. The person was someone working at CVS who stole a CC number, placed a DoorDash order using my address, then when they assembled the order for “me” they scratched off the back of the card and took a photo of the code so they could steal it when they got home. No one would even know unless they tracked it to my house which would point towards the likelihood that I stole the items. Except they didn’t anticipate the DoorDash guy being suspicious of the order because he did both and was sitting outside my home trying to figure out what in the world to do. I saw him and I called out to him asking what’s up. I explained that I didn’t order DoorDash. Called them, they had zero idea of what to do, I called the Visa card and they said they had no way to know how to deal with it so I quickly redeemed the Visa numbers which I managed to get one before the scammer, and donated the money to a children’s hospital.
In this case you would call CVS, and they would refund the cards to the original owner, and they would call the gift card issuer bank to come up with a way to prevent this kind of scam
Yeah well I called every single entity involved in the scam EXCEPT the local store because it was the likely source of the theft. I called their main number, DoorDash, and the visa company. They all had zero idea or understanding of whah I was explaining to them or they didn’t have any way to deal with it. DoorDash kept asking if the order was wrong and that it didn’t show I placed an order and CVS just took my info and said someone would contact me and they never did. It was frustrating how little any of them cared.
Yeah I don’t know that. I’m assuming it was a new account with bogus info. It took us a while to even realize what the scam was and I’m still not 100% who was the initiator but it wasn’t the DoorDash guy. He was baffled and ready to throw down because he knew something was going on.
Is it from amazon? I had 3 things sent to me , 2 necklaces like yours but were different brands and a kids toy. I later found that is how sellers can get their ratings up if it's a new company.
I found their sellers page and left bad reviews. Lol.
There is also a scam going on Amazon and Ebay where a seller sets up a store and lists very expensive items at a substantially lower price than retail. You are lured in to a purchase, then they ship out cheap jewelry, combs, toys etc to another address so you see a tracking history. But then when it doesn’t arrive you then have to contact Amazon and file an inquiry to which they will tell you to wait a little longer because possibly the post office has made a mistake in the tracking. All the while the seller already has your money. When Amazon finally catches on they just close shop and open up under another company.
Check your credit anyway just to make sure your identity hasn't been stolen.
I just remembered something. There have been a number of thefts from apartment mailboxes, where the mail carrier is held up at gunpoint, and their master key is stolen. So, def check your credit.
Mailbox keys (private and USPS) are easily stolen and reproduced. That's been such a problem in my area of PA that the police warned people to only take door-to-door delivery of costly purchases.
> A credit card thief throwing the smokescreen your way (or were waiting to snatch it from your mailbox before you).
My identity was recently stolen and used to open a capital one credit card, of which they then spammed with cash advance requests until it was at its limit.
I called capital one to let them know it wasn't me, and despite the guy from the Fraud line telling me "Yeah I can't say too much but the person in the ID photo here does not look like they would be named your name, and these all being cash advances really does seem like fraud", he also said "We mailed the card to your address, so unless someone snatched it out of the mail I don't know how they would have it, did you apply for this card and lose it?"
I told them I have absolutely no knowledge of this card ever being applied for or the account being opened, and he said "Ok well from my view this does look like fraud. Our team will look at it and you'll hear back in 30-45 days". I then got a letter in the mail saying they determined it was not fraud.
So I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do now. They have a fake ID photo of *someone else* using my name, and apparently that's not enough to prove it wasn't me that opened this account.
Funny enough I think taking something out of someones mailbox (at least in the US) is a federal crime where card theft could be a felony depending on dollar amounts and locations. You'd have to be stupid to commit a lesser crime stealing something then stealing it and retrievingit from a mail box. 10/10 dumb criminals lol
Same thought. Why would they send a $300 item? The article itself says “empty box or cheap item”
This isn’t the case. Who knows if OP is just posting for karma, but either way brushing doesn’t really make sense here.
"Please send me my necklace back. It was an accident my boss is going to fire me, and my 8 children who sleep on the floor of the motel storage room will be on the streets forever because of you! Do you understand??
You need to send the necklace and an additional $300 in Google Play cards so I won't call the fbi service and they will take away your life in the penitentiary or in the world. send fast. Go now! I need the necklace for my brother. He is stuck at the airport. He is a prince and has seen a vagene before. "
This is 100% a brushing scam.
Some random company got your info from some other random company that got it from some random entity that likely got it from a data breach.
I know dozens of people (myself included) who have received stuff exactly this way. Usually it’s decent jewelry, but of course I got shitty exercise equipment…
The thing is that they aren’t exactly scamming YOU per se, they are just scamming the review system of whatever website they use to sell. Basically more reviews = more traffic = more revenue. There has to be proof of an actual shipment for it to work, then they use your name to review themselves. It’s shady af, but there’s no immediate downside for you.
The good news is you get to keep the necklace and do nothing (never respond if someone actually reaches out, but there’s very little chance of that happening anyway). The bad news is that your info was part of a breach somewhere and is now being bought and sold by god knows who (definitely change as many passwords as you can to be safe).
Anyway, congrats on the necklace! Update us if it turns your neck green or if there are any fun developments.
Weird, cause this company is kinda well known. They even sell this jewelry at a known Urban/Skate store in my local mall and have partnerships with a few Rappers. This isn't a "start-up" company or a "here today gone tomorrow" type thing.
Hear me out, but there is an incredibly high chance that the necklace isn’t from the company on the labeling at all. Those brushing scams are more elaborate than we think and it certainly would make sense to make it all look as legit as possible, right?
But I guess I could be wrong and the reputable jewelry store is just feeling extra generous this month? Who’s to say.
Wheres the box it comes in? I got a labeled box with that GLD pouch inside and then plastic pouch for my chain. If there wasn't a "middle" box, I'd think it was a repack scam.
Any department store ordered online will send a necklace in a plastic bag like that, i know cause I just bought my gf a replacement chain a month or 2 ago and the one I ordered cost a little over $200 and was sent in a plastic bag just like the one pictured
There is a watch company that’s expensive as fuck (I think Rolex but cant remember tbh) that gets sent to jewelry shops in a small cardboard enclosing that has watch in plastic.
Edit: thanks to u/cherry_chocolate_ for giving the correct company name, it’s Patek Philippe not Rolex.
It’s dumb and I know it. But dang when you buy expensive jewelry you wanna feel like a big man/woman…not like you’re just shaking the last M&Ms out of the pack.
I worked in a restaurant next door to a high end jewelry store. Someone tried to rob it two separate times unsuccessfully, so you’d think they had their security on lock. But at least once a month the delivery driver would drop off one of their packages with us.
So chef gets curious one day, I’m begging him not to open it but he tears the strip on the fedex envelope and pulls out a handful of diamonds, each one in a little plastic bag with its grading and price. He was incredulous they cost as much as they did, he had about $18,000 in his hand.
I was the one that had to return the package, all torn up. All I said was “chefs are crazy, ya know? Sorry about that.”
It's called packaging not mean for display. You think jewelers receive boxes just filled with unwrapped unmarked jewelry?
You see it a lot with Amazon merchandise especially from Chinese sellers. A lot of places aren't wasting money on pretty packaging on something going direct to the buyer instead of sitting on a store shelf.
i can shed some light here. They are very much a legitimate business. however, their jewelry is 100% not real diamonds or solid gold. these pieces are sterling silver + gold plated with cubic zirconia as the stones. its basically still a precious metal but not anywhere near the price tag of diamonds and solid gold.
source: i bought some of this stuff when i was a teenager and pretending to have money.
exactly i made a comment to a friend of mine once that honestly these brands should just stick to the sterling silver and do less designs with stones.
they legitimately have some great designs for their products but the fact that they use CZ stones and gold plating leaves a bad taste as you get older. especially knowing that it isnt really real.
a lot of brands these days advertise themselves on the fact that they use moissanite which is basically a cousin to a diamond. and i think thats cool.
I agree. Silver will always hold its value, but the more you tack on to it like gold plating or low value synthetic gems the less it’ll sell for due to the effort to get it down to the raw material.
Unless it’s a by a respected design house or something else that people would want.
My wedding ring is fantastic and only $200. It's mostly tungsten carbide-based but we didn't read carefully and the other part is only rose gold *plated* so I have to paint it with protective epoxy every three months.
My dad used to work in Singapore and he bought me, my mom and my sisters all these gorgeous 14k gold and jade rings. They came with a similarly titled document that the airport security personnel checked at every flight. I believe it’s an anti-smuggling measure.
# Please be aware that even "real" jewelry is a complete ripoff.
Someone talked my father into purchasing a $1200 gold necklace and charm "as an investment". I found out about it as he was passing away because I was paying his bills for him. I saw the charge on the credit card and asked him about it.
I took it back to them after he passed away to ask if they'd buy it back, and they (and a few other places I checked with) would only buy it for its weight in gold, which came out to $425.
That’s the bitch about fine jewelry. Unless it’s maybe an antique, it will likely only sell at its scrap value. Buy it because you like it and pass it on to someone who might could use the cash later on.
Lol, all jewelery isn't a ripoff just because your father got scammed by someone. Yea, no shit Jewlery is a bad "investment", but Jewlery is one of the oldest human crafts, beyond reductive to call it all a scam. I've never bought a single piece of jewlery personally, but just saying it's certainly not all a scam.
Is this not like, super obvious? The metal is the valuable part... if someone starts a manufacturing process with metal and incurs costs in producing the item, then obviously the final product is going to cost more than the initial raw material.
Was your father somehow unclear about that? Did he somehow think he was buying $1200 worth of gold? $425 by weight is pretty reasonable for a high street jeweler... I'm struggling to see how this was a ripoff. If the gold weight was like $50 or something, then sure. But $425?? Sounds like a perfectly legitimate and fair purchase of a gold necklace.
It could have cost $10 to make and is priced at $300, but neither of those numbers mean it's worth anything. Cost, price, and worth are all different things.
That's what I was thinking, maybe it's like a $2 item they send out by the hundreds, and if recipients contact the company they offer a refund in some weird way that ends up getting them the person's CC info or some such thing.
So something similar happened to my sister in law last year, except it was a cheap necklace from china. We assumed my brother bought it for her, but could find no record of an order anywhere in his email or accounts. He had been sick and bedridden for a year with brain cancer, he did a lot of random online shopping he often forgot about. The necklace had a heart on it and arrived while my brother was in palliative care the week he passed. Freaky as shit
Maybe he had ordered it long before and scheduled it to arrive at a certain time, or it got stuck somewhere and was delivered very late? My friends mom got flowers for years after her husband died because he had prepaid.
I ordered an iPad from Best Buy that didn’t arrive, and after three weeks the tracking showed it was lost in transit. They sent another one which arrived overnight.
Four months later I came home to a package - it was the lost iPad. I contacted Best Buy and they were confused as to why I was calling, after being put on hold and given the roundabout a customer agent told me to keep it.
My parents 8 years ago ordered a year subscription card for Pandora for my brother as a Christmas present.
It never showed up that year for Christmas, and absolutely nobody could tell us where the envelope was.
It showed up in the mail *3 years later*, envelope stained brown, covered in grease spots, but the subscription card fully intact and still valid. Everyone forgot about the card until that point lmao
One time, in the span of a year, I received numerous random packages from Amazon that I never ordered (they didn’t show up in my order history nor were any of my cards charged). They ranged from small fidget devices to large tools. Doing some research, it appeared others were experiencing the same. I deduced that it was Amazon/Chinese stores sending out free items to get you to review them. Unfortunately, the items stopped flowing in. Some of them were useful like chargers or tools I actually used..
I once got a complete canning system with everything from the jars, the pressure cooker and everything else you need to can food that was worth like $150-$175, delivered to my mom’s house. I hadn’t lived there in over 15yrs! It even had my married name on it, not my maiden, and considering I moved away from home over 5yrs before getting married it just added to the weirdness. Never gotten anything else I didn’t order though and I’m kinda sad about it!
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Princess Tiabeanie is the prettiest Disney princess, and no one’s going to tell her otherwise. Do it, she dares you.
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Don’t worry, if you tell her otherwise her ‘I’m gonna murder you’ face is cuter than her ‘mildly annoyed’ face, and includes Disney eyes.
My Tiabeanie has been practicing her scowling, she hopes to one day look as grumpy as yours
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I thought that but it’s usually with people that have created an account on their site. Maybe someone used my info to make an account but I have no emails from their site. So someone made an account with my name and address then they send me one to write a review on their product?
If you get "brushed" through Amazon, they don't do crap. It happened to me. First I got a keyboard, then a WiFi extender, then a tablet. When I called Amazon they said they can't tell me who sent it (some privacy BS). They said I have 4 choices: return it to them, donate it, throw it out, or keep it. They didn't seem too concerned about the situation. It was about $300 total in merchandise. I just gave the stuff to my kids & grandkids. The tablet was actually pretty nice!
Why doesn't anyone use my address for fake reviews? That would be so nice to receive random presents. Would have been pretty cool to be a part of that chinese seed scandal a few years ago where a chinese company was brushing using seed packets as the delivery. Could have grown so many plants!
1. A shady dealer of junky jewellery sets up an online storefront in Alibaba, amazon, etc..
2. Problem: Nobody wants to buy junky jewellery from a shady junk jewellery dealer. People searching for jewelry won't even see the storefront because it gets sorted so low in search results. Positive reviews are needed!
3. The shady dealer sends junk jewellery worth pennies a piece to random addresses, including yours. They *actually* ship items, because online stores like Alibaba check mail tracking data to spot scammers like the shady dealer.
4. The shady dealer contracts a sweatshop to place orders (using the shady dealer's own cash) and churn out glowing reviews for every piece of junky jewelry shipped. These are posted in a lot of different names, including yours. No identity theft occurs. They're just using your name.
5. The glowing reviews pile up. The shady dealer's junky jewellery starts bubbling to the top of search results. People start paying hundreds of dollars for junky jewellery that still costs under a buck to manufacture. The shady dealer makes hundreds of sales, closes their storefront, and disappears into the aether.
6. About now, after thousands of people have bought junk for hundreds of dollars a pop, you finally receive the junky jewellery that was shipped to you. It's probably made of brass and cheap rhinestones. It's not worth *anywhere* near what the website claims. The fancy box (good for photos) it comes in is probably worth more than the jewellery itself. It's junk. You didn't pay for it. No harm, no foul, as far as you're concerned. It's the people who read the glowing review posted in your name and paid for similar junk that got ripped off.
6. You post this on reddit and realize it was a brushing scam. You inform amazon or alibaba, etc. that you think a brushing scam is going on. Too bad, it's too late. Far too late. The shady dealer cannot be contacted. They closed the old storefront weeks ago and are busy doing the same thing again with a new storefront and totally different contact info.
1) If you are habitually getting drunk enough to be ordering stuff with no memory of it, it might be time to back off the drinking a bit. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, I'm not your dad, but just something to think about.
2) It could be a brushing scam, but I've never heard of those with something of this value before.
3) Personally, I'd keep it with all the packaging for a few weeks and keep checking your accounts just in case, but I'd also be concerned about a stalker. It's not likely, but I've personally run into a few cases of stalking that sounded like total crap until I saw the evidence myself. Keep an eye out for anything else showing up or things going missing. Even stuff like bags of garbage from your can. Be safe, not potentially taken by surprise.
If nothing weird happens, you could see about returning it if it has a return address, but that's often harder than you'd think. I'd probably just keep it, wait a while and if nothing comes up, pawn it for a few shekels and move on.
That sounds like an anxiety/depression thing to me. I'm not an expert, though I do have generalized anxiety disorder. That sounds a lot like what some people do to regulate.
This person is right exclamation.Point come on, I am a survivor of a stalker and it's important to pay attention small things like your trash going missing for little packages or notes that seem silly hard insignificant need to be paid attention to collect them and contact someone so there's more than one person who is aware of your situation set up a security camera and pay attention and whatever you do don't wear that necklace if you do have a stalker and they see you wearing it it's only going to influence some to keep going. Having a stalker is not cute it's not romantic and it is dangerous!
That was my first thought! I had a friend in college who started receiving expensive gifts, usually left at her door or in her car (yes, I said *in*). Then notes started coming with them. Then she started noticing weird shit in her apartment. Items missing. Things moved around. She always locked up, but it didn't make a difference. That's when it got real scary! At the end of a long story, it was some random dude from one of her classes, and he ended up arrested.
Did you order something else that never came? Happened to me. I ordered shoes for $40 and received a gold ring with diamonds with certificate of authenticity and a dollar value (strange thing for a jeweller to do if you ordered it you’d know the price) though looking very odd in plastic bag but also a box and lots of fancy packaging like you mentioned, but also looking quite fake. I googled for brushing scams and found the same ring reported sent to other people with an appraisal that ring likely cost $8 to make. It didn’t quite seem to match brushing because I got a delivery notification and everything for the shoes. (Maybe should now mention they were a discontinued item I was really scraping around to find) My guess is the hope of the scam is you’ll think a mistake was made in your favour and not report the $40 missing and keep the $8 trinket instead of demanding repayment. They make 32 dollars, you think you made 360, everybody’s happy lol.
"GLD chains are typically made with a base metal, such as stainless steel or brass, and are then coated with a layer of gold using a specialized plating process. This gives the chains the appearance of solid gold, while also making them more affordable and accessible for consumers."
It's worth about 3 bucks.
there are a couple scams based on these kind of blind mailings to people. Either review inflation, ooops it was a mistake give me your info, or they contact you trying to invoice you for something you never ordered.
I actually got one like that for a very tacky set of earrings.
Some rude guy called us on our land line and tried to say we owed him. I explained thats not how it works in the US. And they got mad and hung up.
That happened to my boyfriend, it ended up being his ex sending him a golden chain, presumably to apologise for the way she has mentally damaged him during a psychosis. My boyfriend had a golden chain stolen from him earlier in his life. Is there any story of you prior in your life relating to missing a necklace?
It’s absolutely possible someone needed to send an item to someone so they could do a verified review on a website to get more sales. They send it to someone and act like it’s their address and then they give their product a glowing review and it shows “verified purchase” or something of the sort
that's quite the mystery you've got there. hmm, reminds me of this one time i got an unexpected package in the mail - turned out to be some old bbaseball cards from my uncle. now, i'm no jewelry expert, but maybe you could take it to a local jeweler and see if they can shed some light on it? they might be able to give you a better idea of what it is and where it came from. either way, i'd say stay calm and don't sweat it too much. if it was a mistake, i'm sure you can get it sorted out. good luck!
Google randomly sent me a Pixel phone on my birthday a few years ago. It came via FedEx overnight, addressed to me. I still have no clue why. I didn't have insurance, hadn't broken my old phone, hadn't even been looking at phones on Google. 🤷🏻♀️
The pic of the dog reminds me of this meme
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More than likely a “Brushing Scam.” Here’s how it works:
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam#:~:text=Oftentimes%2C%20this%20kind%20of%20unsolicited,or%20requested%20by%20the%20recipient.
Clearly the dog bought it knowing how good they’d look in it
Time to check and see how many cards your dog has!!
Santos L. Halper
[Later it would be found under the dog bed.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8f/36/fc/8f36fc69cc3e0506a047ffe7b0869184.jpg)
You a winner! HA HA HA
He look good AF tho. Amirite
Dog is even drooling over it. 😆
Had a bad day, so thanks for the great laugh before I got to bed!
A credit card thief throwing the smokescreen your way (or were waiting to snatch it from your mailbox before you). -OR- An anonymous suitor biding their time.
Well they didn’t scope out my mailbox very well because you need a key to get in
Key is only mental barrier (also intellectual)
Gun is only bullet launcher.
Heavy is good Heavy is reliable If it doesnt work you can throw it at them.
Sneaky fucking Russian
(the gun didn't work)
Locks are meant to keep honest people out
Needing the key is more of a metal barrier
"a click out of one, two is binding, nothing on three"
Which is something that they only found out when they went to pick it up but by then it was done. The likely just moved or another stolen card and address. I had scammers do something similar. Someone sent two different DoorDash orders from CVS to my house one after the other. They each had a cheap soda and a $150 visa gift card with the backs scratched off. The person was someone working at CVS who stole a CC number, placed a DoorDash order using my address, then when they assembled the order for “me” they scratched off the back of the card and took a photo of the code so they could steal it when they got home. No one would even know unless they tracked it to my house which would point towards the likelihood that I stole the items. Except they didn’t anticipate the DoorDash guy being suspicious of the order because he did both and was sitting outside my home trying to figure out what in the world to do. I saw him and I called out to him asking what’s up. I explained that I didn’t order DoorDash. Called them, they had zero idea of what to do, I called the Visa card and they said they had no way to know how to deal with it so I quickly redeemed the Visa numbers which I managed to get one before the scammer, and donated the money to a children’s hospital.
In this case you would call CVS, and they would refund the cards to the original owner, and they would call the gift card issuer bank to come up with a way to prevent this kind of scam
Yeah well I called every single entity involved in the scam EXCEPT the local store because it was the likely source of the theft. I called their main number, DoorDash, and the visa company. They all had zero idea or understanding of whah I was explaining to them or they didn’t have any way to deal with it. DoorDash kept asking if the order was wrong and that it didn’t show I placed an order and CVS just took my info and said someone would contact me and they never did. It was frustrating how little any of them cared.
But wouldn’t the DoorDash orders have still been under their account? Or did they make a brand new account with your address and a fake name?
Yeah I don’t know that. I’m assuming it was a new account with bogus info. It took us a while to even realize what the scam was and I’m still not 100% who was the initiator but it wasn’t the DoorDash guy. He was baffled and ready to throw down because he knew something was going on.
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And starts to show us what hes got for us ToDAY!
Mcnally in the corner. "Today with have a locked mailbox. You can open it with a locked mailbox."
Is it from amazon? I had 3 things sent to me , 2 necklaces like yours but were different brands and a kids toy. I later found that is how sellers can get their ratings up if it's a new company. I found their sellers page and left bad reviews. Lol.
I get crap like that all time, but it’s alway small stupid thing like fridge magnet or bottle opener.
There is also a scam going on Amazon and Ebay where a seller sets up a store and lists very expensive items at a substantially lower price than retail. You are lured in to a purchase, then they ship out cheap jewelry, combs, toys etc to another address so you see a tracking history. But then when it doesn’t arrive you then have to contact Amazon and file an inquiry to which they will tell you to wait a little longer because possibly the post office has made a mistake in the tracking. All the while the seller already has your money. When Amazon finally catches on they just close shop and open up under another company.
Check your credit anyway just to make sure your identity hasn't been stolen. I just remembered something. There have been a number of thefts from apartment mailboxes, where the mail carrier is held up at gunpoint, and their master key is stolen. So, def check your credit.
Credits all good, thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep monitoring it
Mailbox keys (private and USPS) are easily stolen and reproduced. That's been such a problem in my area of PA that the police warned people to only take door-to-door delivery of costly purchases.
Yep. Happened bout half a year ago in my city. In one night these assholes broke into like 30 shared mailbox units.
Locks only keep honest people out
> A credit card thief throwing the smokescreen your way (or were waiting to snatch it from your mailbox before you). My identity was recently stolen and used to open a capital one credit card, of which they then spammed with cash advance requests until it was at its limit. I called capital one to let them know it wasn't me, and despite the guy from the Fraud line telling me "Yeah I can't say too much but the person in the ID photo here does not look like they would be named your name, and these all being cash advances really does seem like fraud", he also said "We mailed the card to your address, so unless someone snatched it out of the mail I don't know how they would have it, did you apply for this card and lose it?" I told them I have absolutely no knowledge of this card ever being applied for or the account being opened, and he said "Ok well from my view this does look like fraud. Our team will look at it and you'll hear back in 30-45 days". I then got a letter in the mail saying they determined it was not fraud. So I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do now. They have a fake ID photo of *someone else* using my name, and apparently that's not enough to prove it wasn't me that opened this account.
It may be time to find an attorney, since you attempted to get the company to rectify the issue and they failed to do so.
Or... 
Funny enough I think taking something out of someones mailbox (at least in the US) is a federal crime where card theft could be a felony depending on dollar amounts and locations. You'd have to be stupid to commit a lesser crime stealing something then stealing it and retrievingit from a mail box. 10/10 dumb criminals lol
GLD is fashion jewelry, not fine jewelry. It's most likely a brushing scam. Doggo looks very posh!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing\_(e-commerce)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce))
In that case wouldn’t it be cheaper to send them an empty package? Guess it’s not feasible if third party like Amazon is handling the shipping.
Same thought. Why would they send a $300 item? The article itself says “empty box or cheap item” This isn’t the case. Who knows if OP is just posting for karma, but either way brushing doesn’t really make sense here.
I figured this was a scam that I’ve seen before but I was struggling to come up with the name.
"Please send me my necklace back. It was an accident my boss is going to fire me, and my 8 children who sleep on the floor of the motel storage room will be on the streets forever because of you! Do you understand?? You need to send the necklace and an additional $300 in Google Play cards so I won't call the fbi service and they will take away your life in the penitentiary or in the world. send fast. Go now! I need the necklace for my brother. He is stuck at the airport. He is a prince and has seen a vagene before. "
So sorry they’re being sent now!
Thank you kindly
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Mother chode son of a bitch mother toad 😡
story checks out 👌🏻
Vagene! Lol. Took me a long second.
This is 100% a brushing scam. Some random company got your info from some other random company that got it from some random entity that likely got it from a data breach. I know dozens of people (myself included) who have received stuff exactly this way. Usually it’s decent jewelry, but of course I got shitty exercise equipment… The thing is that they aren’t exactly scamming YOU per se, they are just scamming the review system of whatever website they use to sell. Basically more reviews = more traffic = more revenue. There has to be proof of an actual shipment for it to work, then they use your name to review themselves. It’s shady af, but there’s no immediate downside for you. The good news is you get to keep the necklace and do nothing (never respond if someone actually reaches out, but there’s very little chance of that happening anyway). The bad news is that your info was part of a breach somewhere and is now being bought and sold by god knows who (definitely change as many passwords as you can to be safe). Anyway, congrats on the necklace! Update us if it turns your neck green or if there are any fun developments.
Weird, cause this company is kinda well known. They even sell this jewelry at a known Urban/Skate store in my local mall and have partnerships with a few Rappers. This isn't a "start-up" company or a "here today gone tomorrow" type thing.
Hear me out, but there is an incredibly high chance that the necklace isn’t from the company on the labeling at all. Those brushing scams are more elaborate than we think and it certainly would make sense to make it all look as legit as possible, right? But I guess I could be wrong and the reputable jewelry store is just feeling extra generous this month? Who’s to say.
The packaging is identical to the actual company too though. Weird. I’m rocking two GLD pieces right now
Wheres the box it comes in? I got a labeled box with that GLD pouch inside and then plastic pouch for my chain. If there wasn't a "middle" box, I'd think it was a repack scam.
I mean, just because it *costs* $300, doesn’t mean that’s what it’s worth. Could just be a scam site overpricing cheap/fake jewelry
I was thinking, if I were buying $300 jewellery and it came in a plastic bag like a set of glowsticks I’d be pretty pissed.
Any department store ordered online will send a necklace in a plastic bag like that, i know cause I just bought my gf a replacement chain a month or 2 ago and the one I ordered cost a little over $200 and was sent in a plastic bag just like the one pictured
As irrational as it is, it’s a bit disappointing to buy something fancy only to have it arrive with as much care as a poptart.
Thankfully a lot more care goes into a poptart since it's edible
We hope, anyway
There is a watch company that’s expensive as fuck (I think Rolex but cant remember tbh) that gets sent to jewelry shops in a small cardboard enclosing that has watch in plastic. Edit: thanks to u/cherry_chocolate_ for giving the correct company name, it’s Patek Philippe not Rolex.
Almost every jewelry brand is going to deliver in a plastic bag like thatz
Plastic baggies are the norm for jewelery. An upclass jeweler will receive 100k items in the exact same bag.
Right? Like what's it supposed to be in?
I think the expectation is a box with velvet "bedding"
It’s dumb and I know it. But dang when you buy expensive jewelry you wanna feel like a big man/woman…not like you’re just shaking the last M&Ms out of the pack.
I worked in a restaurant next door to a high end jewelry store. Someone tried to rob it two separate times unsuccessfully, so you’d think they had their security on lock. But at least once a month the delivery driver would drop off one of their packages with us. So chef gets curious one day, I’m begging him not to open it but he tears the strip on the fedex envelope and pulls out a handful of diamonds, each one in a little plastic bag with its grading and price. He was incredulous they cost as much as they did, he had about $18,000 in his hand. I was the one that had to return the package, all torn up. All I said was “chefs are crazy, ya know? Sorry about that.”
It's called packaging not mean for display. You think jewelers receive boxes just filled with unwrapped unmarked jewelry? You see it a lot with Amazon merchandise especially from Chinese sellers. A lot of places aren't wasting money on pretty packaging on something going direct to the buyer instead of sitting on a store shelf.
You know diamonds come in bags…
i can shed some light here. They are very much a legitimate business. however, their jewelry is 100% not real diamonds or solid gold. these pieces are sterling silver + gold plated with cubic zirconia as the stones. its basically still a precious metal but not anywhere near the price tag of diamonds and solid gold. source: i bought some of this stuff when i was a teenager and pretending to have money.
Also, 300$ for this much gold would have been cheap. No way you could get a white gold necklace for that price.
exactly i made a comment to a friend of mine once that honestly these brands should just stick to the sterling silver and do less designs with stones. they legitimately have some great designs for their products but the fact that they use CZ stones and gold plating leaves a bad taste as you get older. especially knowing that it isnt really real. a lot of brands these days advertise themselves on the fact that they use moissanite which is basically a cousin to a diamond. and i think thats cool.
Moissanite has the claim to fame of being *more* sparkly than diamond with an index of refraction about 10% greater.
while also only being something like 1 point less strong than diamonds as well. its a fantastic stone.
I agree. Silver will always hold its value, but the more you tack on to it like gold plating or low value synthetic gems the less it’ll sell for due to the effort to get it down to the raw material. Unless it’s a by a respected design house or something else that people would want.
My wedding ring is fantastic and only $200. It's mostly tungsten carbide-based but we didn't read carefully and the other part is only rose gold *plated* so I have to paint it with protective epoxy every three months.
Fair, it came in a little box that I didn’t get in the photo, a card of authenticity, and it was in the plastic bag inside the little black bag
That brand usually sells “fake” jewelry but it still very good material that will last. They’re not diamonds though.
Well, you can't doubt a "card of authenticity," can you?
lol obviously not
Like the silverware I purchased that came with a quality *grarentee*.
My dad used to work in Singapore and he bought me, my mom and my sisters all these gorgeous 14k gold and jade rings. They came with a similarly titled document that the airport security personnel checked at every flight. I believe it’s an anti-smuggling measure.
# Please be aware that even "real" jewelry is a complete ripoff. Someone talked my father into purchasing a $1200 gold necklace and charm "as an investment". I found out about it as he was passing away because I was paying his bills for him. I saw the charge on the credit card and asked him about it. I took it back to them after he passed away to ask if they'd buy it back, and they (and a few other places I checked with) would only buy it for its weight in gold, which came out to $425.
That’s the bitch about fine jewelry. Unless it’s maybe an antique, it will likely only sell at its scrap value. Buy it because you like it and pass it on to someone who might could use the cash later on.
Lol, all jewelery isn't a ripoff just because your father got scammed by someone. Yea, no shit Jewlery is a bad "investment", but Jewlery is one of the oldest human crafts, beyond reductive to call it all a scam. I've never bought a single piece of jewlery personally, but just saying it's certainly not all a scam.
Is this not like, super obvious? The metal is the valuable part... if someone starts a manufacturing process with metal and incurs costs in producing the item, then obviously the final product is going to cost more than the initial raw material. Was your father somehow unclear about that? Did he somehow think he was buying $1200 worth of gold? $425 by weight is pretty reasonable for a high street jeweler... I'm struggling to see how this was a ripoff. If the gold weight was like $50 or something, then sure. But $425?? Sounds like a perfectly legitimate and fair purchase of a gold necklace.
It could have cost $10 to make and is priced at $300, but neither of those numbers mean it's worth anything. Cost, price, and worth are all different things.
That's what I was thinking, maybe it's like a $2 item they send out by the hundreds, and if recipients contact the company they offer a refund in some weird way that ends up getting them the person's CC info or some such thing.
So something similar happened to my sister in law last year, except it was a cheap necklace from china. We assumed my brother bought it for her, but could find no record of an order anywhere in his email or accounts. He had been sick and bedridden for a year with brain cancer, he did a lot of random online shopping he often forgot about. The necklace had a heart on it and arrived while my brother was in palliative care the week he passed. Freaky as shit
Maybe he had ordered it long before and scheduled it to arrive at a certain time, or it got stuck somewhere and was delivered very late? My friends mom got flowers for years after her husband died because he had prepaid.
I ordered an iPad from Best Buy that didn’t arrive, and after three weeks the tracking showed it was lost in transit. They sent another one which arrived overnight. Four months later I came home to a package - it was the lost iPad. I contacted Best Buy and they were confused as to why I was calling, after being put on hold and given the roundabout a customer agent told me to keep it.
My parents 8 years ago ordered a year subscription card for Pandora for my brother as a Christmas present. It never showed up that year for Christmas, and absolutely nobody could tell us where the envelope was. It showed up in the mail *3 years later*, envelope stained brown, covered in grease spots, but the subscription card fully intact and still valid. Everyone forgot about the card until that point lmao
One time, in the span of a year, I received numerous random packages from Amazon that I never ordered (they didn’t show up in my order history nor were any of my cards charged). They ranged from small fidget devices to large tools. Doing some research, it appeared others were experiencing the same. I deduced that it was Amazon/Chinese stores sending out free items to get you to review them. Unfortunately, the items stopped flowing in. Some of them were useful like chargers or tools I actually used..
I once got a complete canning system with everything from the jars, the pressure cooker and everything else you need to can food that was worth like $150-$175, delivered to my mom’s house. I hadn’t lived there in over 15yrs! It even had my married name on it, not my maiden, and considering I moved away from home over 5yrs before getting married it just added to the weirdness. Never gotten anything else I didn’t order though and I’m kinda sad about it!
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That's what we assume
Stuff from China can take ages to get to you, so he could have ordered the necklace months before it showed up.
Well aware. The frankness had nothing to do with not being able to find the proof. It was the timing of the arrival
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Definitely the prettiest Disney princess!
https://preview.redd.it/j1fib1gnm91d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04bdb8594f2727447687a75b0cdc182772609e89 Princess Tiabeanie is the prettiest Disney princess, and no one’s going to tell her otherwise. Do it, she dares you.
https://preview.redd.it/e60ycj45n91d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=693de06576e233e9b8132129e650065d8d3a51b5 Don’t worry, if you tell her otherwise her ‘I’m gonna murder you’ face is cuter than her ‘mildly annoyed’ face, and includes Disney eyes.
My Tiabeanie has been practicing her scowling, she hopes to one day look as grumpy as yours https://preview.redd.it/48927ueiv91d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8c26e09a45779d76655aab3136b1fea40b568ce
That’s an impressively meaty meow mitt.
The scientific term is murder mitten.
She doesn’t wear a suspicious necklace from south east Asia. She’s a fraud.
She has a tiny pink unicorn and a little castle. Your argument is invalid.
wtf?? i would love to have that show up in in my mailbox, i have 2 bracelets from GLD. is it solid gold or gold plated?
I believe solid gold. Haven’t looked too much into it but I’ll get back to you when I’m off work
you’ll know if it’s solid gold, it will be heavy. if it’s $300 then it’s probably plated tho
300 could be solid gold but the links are hollow
i got my gld bracelets for 300 each and they’re plated
Definitely not solid gold. Their website has that necklace and bracelet as a set on sale for $296 canadian lol I doubt it is even gold plated
It was me. I was going to ask you to send it back to me but I'm allergic to dogs so you may as well keep it. It does really suit your dog too though👍🏼
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I thought that but it’s usually with people that have created an account on their site. Maybe someone used my info to make an account but I have no emails from their site. So someone made an account with my name and address then they send me one to write a review on their product?
If it's a brushing scheme, they'll take care of that for you.
If you get "brushed" through Amazon, they don't do crap. It happened to me. First I got a keyboard, then a WiFi extender, then a tablet. When I called Amazon they said they can't tell me who sent it (some privacy BS). They said I have 4 choices: return it to them, donate it, throw it out, or keep it. They didn't seem too concerned about the situation. It was about $300 total in merchandise. I just gave the stuff to my kids & grandkids. The tablet was actually pretty nice!
Damn all I got was a wax melter and 27 iPhone cases
Why doesn't anyone use my address for fake reviews? That would be so nice to receive random presents. Would have been pretty cool to be a part of that chinese seed scandal a few years ago where a chinese company was brushing using seed packets as the delivery. Could have grown so many plants!
They would write a review. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)
1 million percent
1. A shady dealer of junky jewellery sets up an online storefront in Alibaba, amazon, etc.. 2. Problem: Nobody wants to buy junky jewellery from a shady junk jewellery dealer. People searching for jewelry won't even see the storefront because it gets sorted so low in search results. Positive reviews are needed! 3. The shady dealer sends junk jewellery worth pennies a piece to random addresses, including yours. They *actually* ship items, because online stores like Alibaba check mail tracking data to spot scammers like the shady dealer. 4. The shady dealer contracts a sweatshop to place orders (using the shady dealer's own cash) and churn out glowing reviews for every piece of junky jewelry shipped. These are posted in a lot of different names, including yours. No identity theft occurs. They're just using your name. 5. The glowing reviews pile up. The shady dealer's junky jewellery starts bubbling to the top of search results. People start paying hundreds of dollars for junky jewellery that still costs under a buck to manufacture. The shady dealer makes hundreds of sales, closes their storefront, and disappears into the aether. 6. About now, after thousands of people have bought junk for hundreds of dollars a pop, you finally receive the junky jewellery that was shipped to you. It's probably made of brass and cheap rhinestones. It's not worth *anywhere* near what the website claims. The fancy box (good for photos) it comes in is probably worth more than the jewellery itself. It's junk. You didn't pay for it. No harm, no foul, as far as you're concerned. It's the people who read the glowing review posted in your name and paid for similar junk that got ripped off. 6. You post this on reddit and realize it was a brushing scam. You inform amazon or alibaba, etc. that you think a brushing scam is going on. Too bad, it's too late. Far too late. The shady dealer cannot be contacted. They closed the old storefront weeks ago and are busy doing the same thing again with a new storefront and totally different contact info.
sell it and then put it all on red 🔴
This guys thinkin with his brain
Enjoy the planted evidence
Love to see a pic of the dog wearing it!
Best place for the necklace, on the pup. ♥️
She’d keep it if she didn’t try to consume it after this picture
Was it a package straight from the seller or did some individual package it up? Curious if there was a receipt in it.
Great point, now that I think of it there was no receipt
Have you left your dog alone with your computer? Your dog does look pretty cute in it. You don’t know what your dog is doing while you are out.
Oh well, yours now.
Just give it to the dog it looks better than a a human wearing fake jewelry
Brushing scam. [More info](https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam)
My brother once received a chinese counterfeit JBL bluetooth speaker. He also never ordered it.
Was it the dog? It looks very grateful and generous
Looks cool as hell on your dog
1) If you are habitually getting drunk enough to be ordering stuff with no memory of it, it might be time to back off the drinking a bit. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, I'm not your dad, but just something to think about. 2) It could be a brushing scam, but I've never heard of those with something of this value before. 3) Personally, I'd keep it with all the packaging for a few weeks and keep checking your accounts just in case, but I'd also be concerned about a stalker. It's not likely, but I've personally run into a few cases of stalking that sounded like total crap until I saw the evidence myself. Keep an eye out for anything else showing up or things going missing. Even stuff like bags of garbage from your can. Be safe, not potentially taken by surprise. If nothing weird happens, you could see about returning it if it has a return address, but that's often harder than you'd think. I'd probably just keep it, wait a while and if nothing comes up, pawn it for a few shekels and move on.
So my SIL has number one but it's not drinking, she's just fucking nuts and wakes up at 3AM and spends money she doesnt have.
That sounds like an anxiety/depression thing to me. I'm not an expert, though I do have generalized anxiety disorder. That sounds a lot like what some people do to regulate.
It is. She is under a doctors care.
This person is right exclamation.Point come on, I am a survivor of a stalker and it's important to pay attention small things like your trash going missing for little packages or notes that seem silly hard insignificant need to be paid attention to collect them and contact someone so there's more than one person who is aware of your situation set up a security camera and pay attention and whatever you do don't wear that necklace if you do have a stalker and they see you wearing it it's only going to influence some to keep going. Having a stalker is not cute it's not romantic and it is dangerous!
Did you post this comment with speech to text question mark
Yes
I do not drink, alcoholism runs in the family so I steer clear of it I’ll keep an eye out for weird stuff, didn’t even consider a stalker. Thank you
That was my first thought! I had a friend in college who started receiving expensive gifts, usually left at her door or in her car (yes, I said *in*). Then notes started coming with them. Then she started noticing weird shit in her apartment. Items missing. Things moved around. She always locked up, but it didn't make a difference. That's when it got real scary! At the end of a long story, it was some random dude from one of her classes, and he ended up arrested.
NICE
You double checked the address? You certain it wasnt at your place on accident? Name and address spelled accurately?
Name and address spelled correctly. No return address, no receipt
A secret admirer
Why couldn’t I get a secret admirer with good taste?
Two outta three ain’t bad
You’re welcome.
You did get that thing I sent you
The dog is really happy that he gets to keep a 300$ necklace 😂
Brushing scam, probably. The seller buys it, sends it to a random address, then writes a fake "verified purchase" review
A secret admirer or a mix up with the shipping company (oh and very cute dog btw)
Did you order something else that never came? Happened to me. I ordered shoes for $40 and received a gold ring with diamonds with certificate of authenticity and a dollar value (strange thing for a jeweller to do if you ordered it you’d know the price) though looking very odd in plastic bag but also a box and lots of fancy packaging like you mentioned, but also looking quite fake. I googled for brushing scams and found the same ring reported sent to other people with an appraisal that ring likely cost $8 to make. It didn’t quite seem to match brushing because I got a delivery notification and everything for the shoes. (Maybe should now mention they were a discontinued item I was really scraping around to find) My guess is the hope of the scam is you’ll think a mistake was made in your favour and not report the $40 missing and keep the $8 trinket instead of demanding repayment. They make 32 dollars, you think you made 360, everybody’s happy lol.
Wow! Your dogo is so pretty! You should definitely let her keep it.😁
Bro, I think we have the same dog!!! My mutt looks 90% similar to yours!
That’s crazy how old is your pup?
The necklace on your dog is the absolute best part of this👍
The dog looks A+++ in it!!
Let that good boi have it
"GLD chains are typically made with a base metal, such as stainless steel or brass, and are then coated with a layer of gold using a specialized plating process. This gives the chains the appearance of solid gold, while also making them more affordable and accessible for consumers." It's worth about 3 bucks.
Upvoted for the dog pic. They look fabulous in it.
there are a couple scams based on these kind of blind mailings to people. Either review inflation, ooops it was a mistake give me your info, or they contact you trying to invoice you for something you never ordered. I actually got one like that for a very tacky set of earrings. Some rude guy called us on our land line and tried to say we owed him. I explained thats not how it works in the US. And they got mad and hung up.
Maybe you have a secret admirer or a stalker?
Seriously, if you (or your lovely dog) don’t get signed to a major modeling contract off this post, I’ll be disappointed.
Someone's gotten a hold of your card. The suspect is furry. 😂 I'd just have it remade into a dog collar.
Is cute dog
Is cute dog
I’ll buy it from you lol
That happened to my boyfriend, it ended up being his ex sending him a golden chain, presumably to apologise for the way she has mentally damaged him during a psychosis. My boyfriend had a golden chain stolen from him earlier in his life. Is there any story of you prior in your life relating to missing a necklace?
doggy swag
It looks good on you.
It's for your dog
It looks great on the dog!
that dog is pimpin snoop
It’s absolutely possible someone needed to send an item to someone so they could do a verified review on a website to get more sales. They send it to someone and act like it’s their address and then they give their product a glowing review and it shows “verified purchase” or something of the sort
Please just make sure you're wearing it when we meet, he'll recognize me by the sparkle in my eye.
that's quite the mystery you've got there. hmm, reminds me of this one time i got an unexpected package in the mail - turned out to be some old bbaseball cards from my uncle. now, i'm no jewelry expert, but maybe you could take it to a local jeweler and see if they can shed some light on it? they might be able to give you a better idea of what it is and where it came from. either way, i'd say stay calm and don't sweat it too much. if it was a mistake, i'm sure you can get it sorted out. good luck!
I’m sorry to break it to you but that shits worth 40$ max
Google randomly sent me a Pixel phone on my birthday a few years ago. It came via FedEx overnight, addressed to me. I still have no clue why. I didn't have insurance, hadn't broken my old phone, hadn't even been looking at phones on Google. 🤷🏻♀️
The pic of the dog reminds me of this meme https://preview.redd.it/0t5cc8w36a1d1.jpeg?width=1107&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a79ce86f2e3bd9f4410df95ba3fed5a1cbbae182
There is no way this is 300 bucks lol
I think the last pic shows clearly that it wasnt for u 🙄
Cute dog!
You’re welcome
I think it's your dog that has a secret admirer 💕
Are you my dogs secret admirer?
You’re welcome
More than likely a “Brushing Scam.” Here’s how it works: https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam#:~:text=Oftentimes%2C%20this%20kind%20of%20unsolicited,or%20requested%20by%20the%20recipient.
maybe i’m crazy but something about the dog photo creeps the fuck out of me
It went exactly as the dog plan.