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What a meth: Elderly Melbourne couple sign for 20kg shipment of drugs, say cops

Alan Brown Silver badge

Fake address dropboxing

"They were thinking of mail order items purchased using stolen credit cards, but it works just as well for drugs."

Or (bringing it back to biting the hand that feeds IT): servers and routers when you're setting up a new ISP:

"One Friday night there was a visit from the police, who unplugged and removed all the new Iconz hardware to the sixth floor of the central Auckland police station.

...

Apparently most of the equipment seized by the police had been obtained through credit card fraud. The so-called business partner had created the scam while working for a company that sold PBX equipment. He had acquired a pile of credit card carbon-copy forms from a retail outlet in Newmarket to get names and card numbers, then convinced retailers to deliver goods to an office address. The couriers would then be intercepted by this person or an accomplice just outside the office, often in a high rise in central Auckland, saying they had urgently been waiting for the disk drives, screens, modems, or whatever equipment was being hijacked. The courier, in a rush, would be glad to get a signature and head back down to street level. The supplier never knew anything was wrong until a month later when the real credit card owners denied ever purchasing the products.[4] "

https://www.nethistory.co.nz/Chapter_7_-_Craving_for_Connection_II/

(This is the same "Internet Company of New Zealand" that pioneered sending out fraudulent domain renewal forms in the mid 1990s long before various "Internet Registry of XYZ" copycats emerged - the victims - suckered by the company name - would have their registration and DNS switched away from their hosting ISP and be charged a 400-1000% markup over the real registry's figures - a lot of people got pretty peeved about having their websites suddenly stop working.)

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