New Scam For All Of You To Be Aware Of

I'm not really that good at explaining, but I'll try anyway (even though I'm not sure where to start)

Basically the scam is that a person (family, whatever) will use a fake name and order items from a company that works on credit. The items are sent out to your home and delivered to your house, you're then approached by the person who ordered the stuff however many days later, the person asks for the packages that arrived to your house saying "oh they must have been delivered to the wrong house" and then you'll hand the packages over to the person, just thinking it was an honest mistake by the postman or something. Then the bill (it's on credit, remember) arrives to your house. Obviously you're not going to pay it. but what will then happen is that you'll approach the person, and they'll claim to know nothing about why you're getting a bill for the packages that were delivered to your house. you can't prove to the company that you did or didn't receive the packages, and you can't prove that the person you gave the packages to has them. so now you're left with a bill to pay without any proof that they weren't yours, because the bill thats arrives has your address on it.

hope that made sense.

Whats happened to us is that a few packages were sent to us from Littlewoods.com around 3 weeks ago and the packages were addressed to "Mr. Fijay" and to our address, i think around this week, My mam was approached by a black woman who she hasn't seen around here (this is where it's going to get complicated for me to explain this, because I don't know all the details) she approaches my mam, and is aware that packages have been delivered to our house and says it's a mistake and can she have them. My mam, having seen this scam reported years ago on BBC when the Nigerian population of England was rising greatly, simply said "No, they're going back to where to the post office". (it should probably be noted that there is a Nigerian family living across the road in a rented house, and another family living up the road possibly also in a rented house, and they do know each other.)

Now. My mam went to the post office to bring the packages back and explain what she thought was going on, the worker at the post office knew what was going on also, explaining to my mam that there are tons of Littlewoods packages that have been brought back, and that it's also happening across the country, in Cork and other places. Shes now gone to the Gardí to report it, because this is classed as fraud.

and thats all I can really write about it. Anybody else know about this? Hope it all made sense for all of you.