Ontario woman charged $5,000 for MacBook shipped to her home she didn't order
CTV
An Ontario woman said she was surprised when a laptop was delivered to her door that she didn't order, but it had her address on the label.
An Ontario woman said she was surprised when a laptop was delivered to her door that she didn't order, but it had her address on the label.
“There was a delivery and I found out it was a MacBook Pro worth about $4,900. We didn’t order it, it had someone else's name on it, but it was our address,” said Denise Baillargeon of Etobicoke.
Baillargeon said after the laptop showed up at their home her husband noticed a pending charge for it on their Costco account and not long after that someone came to their door to pick it up.
"The Uber driver said 'I have a requisition to pick up a package that was sent to the wrong address' and I said you can't have this package because we’re on the hook for $5,000 for it,” said Baillargeon.
Concerned, the couple contacted Costco and the police. It appears someone ordered the package with the couple's credit card information, through their Costco account, and once it was delivered, thieves planned to take it, but Baillargeon brought it inside before they could.
"They were waiting hoping that no one was going to be home at our house and they were going to steal this package and I think our house was being watched,” said Baillargeon.
Claudiu Popa, a cybersecurity expert, said it's a new twist on an old scam. Before thieves could steal a credit card and ship a package almost anywhere, but now that’s harder to do which is why they are shipping packages to addresses associated with the stolen credit card information.
