The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Refunding Expensive Items PART 1

Part 1 - How to Set Up and Use a Drop Address

First of all, everything I've ever written regarding fraud, including this, only applies to people in the USA. I do not know anything about fraud in any country except the US.

Part 1 - How to Set Up and Use a Drop Address

The first thing you need to know, is how to set up a drop address to use to receive the items you are ordering, because I assume you don't want to be filing police reports at your home address (especially not more than once). There are two main drop address solutions you can use. You can use non-occupied for sale houses, or you can use rent a mailbox services that give you a real street address, like ipostal1 or anytimemailbox.

To locate a vacant for sale house to use, go on zillow redfin etc and look for single family listing in your area. When you find a house that looks ideal, call the listing agent (their number should be on the listing) from your burner phone using a voip like textnow, and pretend to be an interested buyer. Ask a few questions about the house (have chatgpt help you fine tune your social engineering by working with it to develop a short list of questions if you don't know shit about real estate), and then say you're interested in driving by to see what it looks like from the street in real life. Then, ask if it's occupied because you don't want to disturb anyone living there. Repeat that process until you find an empty ideal house, make sure the order delivery isn't scheduled for a weekend (open houses), and you've found a drop address.

Actually receiving the package involves actually going to the house and not looking like a dirty criminal. Don't park in the driveway or right in front of the house, but just down the street a little. Remember, you have the tracking number and the package is in your name, so you shouldn't have any issues actually receiving the package, as either one of those alone will suffice for delivery drivers. I personally never waited for the drivers to walk up to the house, as soon as I spotted the truck I flagged the driver down and showed him the tracking number and he'd hand over the package. I tended not to wait for them to ask why I was waiting outside, and would mention something like "It's a pretty expensive package, I didn't want to take any chances with porch thieves", but the specifics of how you handle the driver is up to you. Some brief small talk, a pleasant demeanor and just generally being polite are always a good idea.

If you choose to receive packages using the house for sale method, you are going to have to sit there from early in the day, until the package is delivered, but that's sweat equity. If you're trying to save money and you don't want to pay money for your drop address, some more of your time will be required.

On the other hand, you can just get a rent a mailbox at ipostal1 or anytime mailbox. This will give you a street address you can use to receive orders under your own name in every state in the country, and you can also forward the packages from that address to your personal drop address. They do require identity verification that you won't be able to beat (at least until I tell you how in my Guide to Refunding using Stolen Identities), but again this is about refunding under your own name so you shouldn't have any issues. They charge a small monthly fee, and their shipping rates are about as criminal as what I'm teaching you to do in this guide. But what you lose in money, you more than make up for with convenience. These rent an address services will completely eliminate any hassle associated with finding a drop address, aside from paying for them.