Suspicious Meiji Delivery

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1. I think you can expect an invoice in the mail. For door to door sales, if they fail to make a sale they can fraudulently sign your address up to meet their KPIs. If you get the bill, or if there is a contact on the parcel you have received, call them and clear it up.

   I’ve seen it before with electricity plans.

   If you didn’t see the Meji guy, it would either be fake shipment to a random address so a reseller Amazon shop can post verified Amazon reviews (also seen this before) or a crazy stalker demonstrating their affection with yoghurt

2. The other day Yamato tried to deliver a package with cash on delivery for ¥10k. We never order anything through cash on delivery so we knew it was some kind of scam and declined it. Lots of scams going on lately, better be careful.

3. It could be a fake shipment. Meiji have a dedicated [home delivery](https://www.meiji.co.jp/takuhaimeiji/about/) service, but they never send anything, if you don’t sign up.

4. Something is going on with Amazon. I had an Amazon Prime deduction on my credit card, even though I don’t have Amazon Prime. A friend of mine also had something ordered from Amazon despite not having an account. They reimburse the amount, but there was no further investigation on how or who made the payment. I called my credit card company and they send me a new card.

5. Have recently received COD orders that we never ordered and the delivery guy said he had recently had many similar scams. Looking into it, there are a variety of such scams, some not COD, but yeah don’t accept packages you never ordered.

6. Never accept a package that you didn’t order/aren’t expecting. Refuse it.

7. Meiji used to suck you into “free” samples. They were free, but then wouldn’t leave you alone until you told them to fuck off or just didn’t answer the door. Could be that.