I believe sometimes bad actors will purchase goods from themselves using illegally obtained payment information and then actually send the goods to the victim to try to argue against the chargeback and/or make the victim think “hmm maybe I did order this…”. Or they could be trying to make their devices less likely to trip fraud detection systems for a larger haul. Not sure how well this all works though. With more expensive things (phones, TVs, etc.) I’d think they’re planning on swiping the package before you get it, but with coffee I’d be shocked if that was the plan.
Planning on swiping the package requires you to be local to the victim, and willing to assume a high level of risk and time - this is not often close to the truth. These people are often not even within the United State.
What you are describing exists but it would be far more likely that you would know them - and it’s a sloppy drunk family member/friend/coworker. They would not be in the game for long doing this.
I believe sometimes bad actors will purchase goods from themselves using illegally obtained payment information and then actually send the goods to the victim to try to argue against the chargeback and/or make the victim think “hmm maybe I did order this…”. Or they could be trying to make their devices less likely to trip fraud detection systems for a larger haul. Not sure how well this all works though. With more expensive things (phones, TVs, etc.) I’d think they’re planning on swiping the package before you get it, but with coffee I’d be shocked if that was the plan.
Wild scam idea, must work x amount times. Too bad for them we drink zero coffee.
Donate to local homeless shelter or food bank.
I would but these have become gifts this year because I couldn’t afford them otherwise
Planning on swiping the package requires you to be local to the victim, and willing to assume a high level of risk and time - this is not often close to the truth. These people are often not even within the United State.
What you are describing exists but it would be far more likely that you would know them - and it’s a sloppy drunk family member/friend/coworker. They would not be in the game for long doing this.
We are leaning toward an online vendor at the moment. The card has no numbers and we have zero locale with knowledge of sniffing card numbers.