Woman 'overwhelmed' as she continuously receives hundreds of mystery packages she didn't order
I think we can all agree that everyone loves a freebie, but this women grew tired of being inundated with packages she didn't order.
Isabelle Wood initially didn't mind seemingly being sent things in the mail by mistake, but she grew concerned when the parcels kept coming.
The packages - all from Temu - weren't addressed to her but all had her address.
The name put on the parcels was simply 'Romeo', a name the 27-year-old who lives just outside of Chicago doesn't know.
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Over time, hundreds of items have been sent to Isabelle including things such as jackets, a karaoke machine, and chess and checker sets.
Some of the more quirkier products include cat perfume and a crawfish trap.
Isabelle waited for someone to come and collect the items, but they never came.
At one point, she had so many packages that Isabelle had to recruit her dad to help her store them.
"The first week or two I was like, 'This is kind of fun, it's like Christmas,' and then it got so overwhelming," she told Inside Edition of her situation.
When Isabelle realized all the items were from Temu she reached out to the Chinese retailer. The packages kept on coming, however.
It's now believed that Isabelle might be victim of an online business scam known as 'brushing'.
This is 'an illicit way for sellers to get reviews for their products', BBC News reports.
Someone will set up a fake account on sites like Temu under random names and addresses that they may have retrieved from publicly available information or potentially from a leaked database that's doing the rounds from a previous data breach.
They then order items to an address (with no intention of actually receiving them) all so they can write a bogus review.
The review is then deemed as legitimate as there's an order linked to it.
A similar ordeal happened to Arkansas resident Doyle Crenshawn who received a random packet of seeds in the mail from China.
He proceeded to plant the seeds not realizing that the authorities had issued a warning not to do so incase the plant was an invasive species.
Luckily, it isn't thought that the plant that eventually blossomed was invasive after all, although it wasn't reported exactly what type of plant it what.
At the time Whitehouse Police Department went on to determine that people like Doyle who received the seeds we likely victims of a brushing scam.
Niamh Shackleton