About a month ago I saw a post here on TPF talking about a Poshmark scam. Ladies, if you shop Posh, please take this story to heart because reading that post (hopefully) saved me and I hope mine will do the same should anyone here need it.
Monday I was notified my bag had shipped. Wednesday night I had an email from Posh saying my item had been delivered (news to me) and I needed to log in to accept it. According to USPS tracking, it was delivered at 1:59 p.m. to my work address where the mail was handed to me directly and there hadn’t been a box. I notified Posh I hadn’t received the item. Their auto response was to check all doors, contact USPS, ask neighbors.
The PO where I work was closed by then so first thing Thursday I called. The carrier insisted he had left my box “on the ledge” even though he handed me the mail. Recalling the story I had read, where as part of the scam, an envelope had been substituted for the box, I asked if it was a box he left. The carrier insisted it was a box and they suggested someone stole it off the ledge aka right out of my hands since they handed me the mail. Finally I told the PO manager that we have security cameras and I was going to have the footage pulled to see if the carrier actually entered with a box or not. Suddenly I had some cooperation. They’d call me back in an hour.
The call came and I knew I was being scammed just like the other poster. Here is the scam and here is what you need to do:
Posh has sellers print out click and ship labels, the scammer alters both addresses on the label and the recipient’s name, leaving the bar code the carrier scans alone. My package was going from NY to Aerinha on 160 Cherry St (not my street) according to USPS tracking, but the label said it was going from TX to “current resident” at 143 Cherry St. Carrier left it at the labeled address, close enough to the real address that GPS shows the scan as valid and the system says delivered. I don’t have my item, but since everything says I do, Posh would have handed my money to the scammer if I hadn’t read the other post.
The original poster found out her altered label was put on an envelope, whoever got the “current resident” envelope tossed it as junk mail and all the evidence would be gone except that poster’s PO gave her a scan of the last image of her item showing it wasn’t a box and the label had been doctored (her scammer did it by hand, mine typed the changes). My PO wasn’t being so cooperative, but I threw out “mail fraud” and “scam”…there is no way to prove the scam w/o the image of the fraudulent label. Finally, they ponied up the image.
I sent the picture to Posh and am waiting for them to respond. They have a 24 hour response window. If they don’t reply or try to wiggle out of my refund, I am calling my CC company.
If you order anything from Posh, Mercari or ebay and it says delivered and you don’t have the item, call your PO asap and make them dig into it!
Monday I was notified my bag had shipped. Wednesday night I had an email from Posh saying my item had been delivered (news to me) and I needed to log in to accept it. According to USPS tracking, it was delivered at 1:59 p.m. to my work address where the mail was handed to me directly and there hadn’t been a box. I notified Posh I hadn’t received the item. Their auto response was to check all doors, contact USPS, ask neighbors.
The PO where I work was closed by then so first thing Thursday I called. The carrier insisted he had left my box “on the ledge” even though he handed me the mail. Recalling the story I had read, where as part of the scam, an envelope had been substituted for the box, I asked if it was a box he left. The carrier insisted it was a box and they suggested someone stole it off the ledge aka right out of my hands since they handed me the mail. Finally I told the PO manager that we have security cameras and I was going to have the footage pulled to see if the carrier actually entered with a box or not. Suddenly I had some cooperation. They’d call me back in an hour.
The call came and I knew I was being scammed just like the other poster. Here is the scam and here is what you need to do:
Posh has sellers print out click and ship labels, the scammer alters both addresses on the label and the recipient’s name, leaving the bar code the carrier scans alone. My package was going from NY to Aerinha on 160 Cherry St (not my street) according to USPS tracking, but the label said it was going from TX to “current resident” at 143 Cherry St. Carrier left it at the labeled address, close enough to the real address that GPS shows the scan as valid and the system says delivered. I don’t have my item, but since everything says I do, Posh would have handed my money to the scammer if I hadn’t read the other post.
The original poster found out her altered label was put on an envelope, whoever got the “current resident” envelope tossed it as junk mail and all the evidence would be gone except that poster’s PO gave her a scan of the last image of her item showing it wasn’t a box and the label had been doctored (her scammer did it by hand, mine typed the changes). My PO wasn’t being so cooperative, but I threw out “mail fraud” and “scam”…there is no way to prove the scam w/o the image of the fraudulent label. Finally, they ponied up the image.
I sent the picture to Posh and am waiting for them to respond. They have a 24 hour response window. If they don’t reply or try to wiggle out of my refund, I am calling my CC company.
If you order anything from Posh, Mercari or ebay and it says delivered and you don’t have the item, call your PO asap and make them dig into it!
) So a few marks or scuffs wouldn't faze her at all. I, on the other hand, stop carrying my bags long before they look like some the bags sellers are listing as like new condition, or NWOT!
