I read a while back about a form of on-line return fraud where a scammer will order something for a random person, and can somehow profit through return fraud. I think I see that happening to someone. Does anyone know how this works, and would anyone actually care if I tried to stop it?

Maybe like this?https://www.cleveland.com/business/2017/04/a_new_scam_watch_out_for_deliv.html

Seem similar. But the recipient hasn't been at the address for years. And it wasn't only one package. One came by UPS and was just sitting in our lobby. Another one came by USPS. I was there when the mail female was trying to drop it off. I let her know that the person no longer lives here, and she took the package back.

I'm wondering if the scammEr got some out of date information.

It’s likely someone using a stolen credit card, ordering something where it passes the address verification and then the scammer calls the shipping company and redirects the package somewhere they can retrieve it.

My company was hit with this and we had to put additional safeguards in place to protect ourselves and the cardholders, banks and CC companies are taking major hits on this as the verification passes. Now we look for additional oddities.

Damn theives!!