The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels
&gt; According to Citizens&#x27; Advice, if an item is addressed to you, there has been no previous contact with the company, and it arrives out of the blue, then you can keep it.<p>You might not want to, through.  I an was almost-victim of another scam where the scammers opened an account at Best Buy using my information with (someone else&#x27;s) stolen credit card, and ordered a laptop and shipped it to my address.  I returned it to the store immediately and notified Best Buy of the scam, but the next work day a FedEx guy came with a prepaid label (from the scammers) to pick it up.  The idea apparently was to confuse me about the return, so I&#x27;d accidentally ship the laptop to the scammers rather than Best Buy.<p>It would&#x27;ve worked too, but I&#x27;d already returned the package in person and called the police (because I&#x27;d assumed the scammer&#x27;s plan was to steal it from my doorstep). I didn&#x27;t realize something was wrong with the pickup until the Fedex guy was almost ready to drive away, but I waved him down to get a look at the label.<p>The name&#x2F;address on the was that of a recent immigrant living in New York City.  My understanding is that he&#x27;s probably just a schmuck who got taken in by some fake work from home scam to transship the stolen items.  He may even think he&#x27;s working for Best Buy to process returns.<p>In any case, I think if I&#x27;d kept the laptop I&#x27;d have been guilty of receiving stolen property, at least.  At worst, I could have been assumed to be a bumbling scammer and charged with credit card fraud (though, being a white professional worker, that probably wouldn&#x27;t happen since I would probably be given the benefit of the doubt, but other people wouldn&#x27;t be so lucky).