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California woman receives 100 portable heaters she never ordered

Mathews said the packages come from many places across the country.

December 30, 2022 09:21 am

NEW YORK (Web Desk) – A California woman is trying to get to the bottom of an unusual mystery after being inundated with about 100 packages, each containing a portable heater.

Connie Mathews said she has received about 100 space heaters in the mail at her home in Sacramento, and the mystery packages started arriving earlier this month.

“They started coming on Friday, two weeks before Christmas, and every day I would get sometimes two boxes, sometimes more,” she told KXTV. “Yesterday, seven boxes were waiting for us on the porch.”

Mathews said the packages come from many places across the country, including Iowa and North Carolina.

“Same thing over and over again. I never ordered a portable heater. I don’t need one,” she said.

Mathews suspects her address may be mistakenly listed as a return address for a space heater seller on Amazon.

“What happens if someone turns against me, saying well we sent him to your house, what did you do with him?” she said.

Mike and Kelly Gallivan of Acton, Mass., faced a similar problem in 2018 when their home received a deluge of Amazon packages containing small, inexpensive items they had never ordered.

The couple said their research revealed they likely received the packages as part of a scheme to get fraudulent reviews marked as “verified” on Amazon.

“We are investigating inquiries from consumers who have received unsolicited packages as this would violate our policies,” Amazon said in a statement at the time. “We remove sellers in violation of our policies, stop payments, and work with law enforcement to take appropriate action.”

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