IS THIS A SCAM???

So today at my work, we got a pretty unassuming box. No markings, just a box about 1' cube. It was addressed to our small business (4 employees) but it was addressed to some middle eastern sounding name. We opened it up (not illegal, it was addressed to our business), and there were 6 brand new in box 64gb iphone xs's. There were a few documents from sprint saying basically "here's your phones, this is how you turn them on" along with a packing slip.

Is this some sort of scam? Like someone will come and sue us for having the phones? These are like $1k a piece and were just dropped off at our door without a signature or anything. I have no pictures of the box or contents. Pic is just a representation

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If you didn't order them, return to sender.

Sell them and buy new phones

It was just sent from a distribution center in Kentucky. I'm 99% sure it's not really the origin of these iphones. I could be mistaken though.

I bet they're bombs.
Sell them on craigslist.

maybe you really were the visit 100.000!! and the prize was real, you just had to wait

Contact Sprint then. If you use them or sell them, they'll easily trace it back to you since the package was addressed to your company.

I'm pretty sure that, according to postal code, they can keep them without consequence.

well unless ur employees want in on this theft just return to sender

if you don't want to get royally fucked, you get the sender's address and send it back.

We aren't planning on using them. Just don't know if it's some sort of elaborate scam. Our company name is VERY unique and long, it was typed out by someone to be sent to us.

100 bucks says they're compromised with backdoor software. And I don't mean the regular kind of backdoors by the NSA and apple. I mean another bit of software/hardware designed to spy on you. They gave them to you so they can intercept your information.

I know Amazon will send out fake packages to catch delivery drivers that steal shit, but I haven't heard of this specific case. Could be just a huge fuck-up somewhere down the line.

Those are boxes for the iPhone X, not XS. Fake.

Congrats, you're fucking illiterate.

lel

pretty sure there are laws that ensure you can't be sued if someone decides to send you something if you didn't order it. it's a gift as far as the law is concerned.

the real question is why someone would do that in the first place. best to sell them on and pretend you never had them, especially since there was no signature required or anything.

" and there were 6 brand new in box 64gb iphone xs's"

Congrats, you're fucking illiterate.
Next time, finish reading the entire fucking post.

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thanks user, i find my joke criminally underrated

Sprint will probably still blacklist them though.

This. Why would you even trust electronics from unknown sources in this timeline?

its theft you can be sued

Opening mail addressed to someone else is a federal crime

It was addressed to our work

But it was addressed to someone that doesn't work at your business. Regardless of the mailing address, if your name isn't on the box and you open it without the owner's permission, it's illegal and you can be prosecuted for it.

Well it was addressed to our business, and the owner of the business instructed us to open it, so

You're retarded.
None of this changes the fact that you opened mail addressed to someone else and that doing so is a federal crime.
Are you a non-white? Is that why this is so difficult for you to grasp?

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If it's addressed to a company and a person who is not working at said company, the person is committing fraud by falsely claiming that they have a connection to that business. We are now at a crossroads where the package has invalid addressing, but it has been delivered to where it was addressed. The package can be opened by the company who received it and it is their duty to send it back to the postal company if the contents were clearly not intended to be sent to them.

Send me one

>Opening mail addressed to someone else is a federal crime
I accidentally opened up my neighbors mail, because the mailman put it in my mailbox.
I gave it to my neighbor opened, but am I now a federal criminal?

>the person is committing fraud by falsely claiming that they have a connection to that business.
>The package can be opened by the company

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fuck off tripfag

>6 phones
>posts picture with 10

next time count the image

>Pic is just a representation
lrn2read

so you're just lying, good to know

Give it back, Jammal.

What if an employee has been working with a client, and the employee gets fired. The client then sends documents to the employee at the office? Is it now illegal for the company to open the documents, when it was simply sent to a certain person at the office because that's the point of contact?

I honestly don't even know who's dumber. The retards falling for this b8 or the retards who can't even read a post

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did you get this information in the same place you got your trip?

No, I just didn't happen to take a photo of the phones in the box at work. and secondly, there were identifying numbers all over the back. I wouldn't want those to get out even if I did take the photo of them.

>no markings
>identifying numbers

Wut

Also, relax mate, it was me your cousin who sent, have fun

I bet they're bugged and someone is trying to commit industrial espionage.

ITT: Brainlets with attitude.
It's not strictly illegal if it's a standard envelope with minimal markings on the outside which you can open up by mistake, but your neighbour can claim that you did it knowingly with the intention of invading his privacy. If it is obviously not meant for you, then it is illegal. is a retard in any case.

Here is some knowledge for the brainlets.

Federal law prohibits the obstruction of mail delivery. But, according to the U.S. Postal Service, mail is delivered when it reaches the workplace. Accordingly, employers do not violate federal law if they open personal mail addressed to employees.

However, intercepting employee mail may violate common law. Under common law, employees can bring two potential privacy claims: “intrusion upon seclusion” and “public disclosure of a private fact.”

“Intrusion upon seclusion,” as applied to employers, goes something like this: If an employer intrudes upon the seclusion, or solitude, of an employee in a way that a reasonable person would find highly offensive, the employee can bring an invasion of privacy claim.

The “public disclosure of a private fact” standard is equally vague: Employers may be sued if they publicly disclose a private fact about an employee in a way that a reasonable person would find highly offensive.

To minimize the potential for these common law privacy claims, reserve—in writing—your right to search all mail you receive, and take the following steps:

Tell employees not to receive personal mail at work. This limits your exposure to personal information.

If you open a letter and determine it is personal, stop reading.

Keep confidential any personal information you discover when reading employees’ mail. Disclose such information only as necessary to take disciplinary or other corrective action (or to defend an adverse employment action upon which it is based).
Source: shrm.org

This.

based

What's your country? In the US you cannot be charged for unordered goods mailed to you with the expectation that you must pay for them. It is considered to be a gift if it was unsolicited. Hope you're in a real country, user.

Your business owns them because they were not addressed to you, so you can't take them.

maybe it's someone that was using a stolen credit card and had them shipped to a public place with the intention of swooping in and picking them up when they arrived. cant really ship something to your home if youre doing something like that. could be a former employee or even someone who works with you now. maybe the phones wont be there tomorrow. maybe theyll just grab them on the way out or maybe you'll get to work tomorrow and your back door will be cracked open and the phones and other valuables gone. cant trust anyone. if your business' name was deliberately printed on the package then it's possible you're being targeted.

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fucking ask a lawyer

TRIPLE CHECK YOUR SECURITY SYSTEMS, LOCKS, AND CAMERAS

>Your business owns them
>because they were not addressed to you
>so you can't take them

why this?

Congrats, by posting it here you've fell for their viral marketing scam.

Nothing related to the iPhones, it's just a reminder to keep your security in check, aways be safe, senpai

who are you quoting?

Does your business make significant amounts of money, somehow involved with money, somehow involved with defense or in any other ways in posession of highly valued secrets?

Literally yes if you were unable to argue that you opened them accidentally, which would be hard to believe someone could be that stupid but it's possible

No, we deal mostly in VHS tapes lol

send it back tyronius the felonius

do you work at an adult video store?
if yes does it have jerk off booths in it? I just recently learned about these. guys will go into adult video stores and put quarters into a "peep show", allowing them to jerk off to porn privately while in a store thats open to the public

fucking bizarre but I bet you work at one of those.

I am quoting this retarded reply: The ones with gloryholes in the toilets are the best.

>neighbor
>similar adresses
>no one expects other people's mail to be delivered to them
I've opened my neighbors mail accidentally when delivered to me.
>expecting a shit load of chinkshit
>mailman delivered a shitload of chinkshit
I admit that if I paid more attention that I probably would have noticed, but I was in package opening mode, and my chinkshit finally came.
>opened chinkshit package, and didn't recognize ever ordering contents
>oh shit this chinkshit isn't mine
>check package, and it's chinkshit rechargeable batteries for neighbor from the same chinkshit dealer
What are the fucking odds, right.
>walked it over to the neighbor
>explained
>was surprised that we both order from the same chinkshit suppliers

that's spooky

>some middle eastern sounding name
Have you considered that this is your boss' real name, and you're a drone working for an undercover terrorist organization? Like these phones are meant to be used in an attack or something.

Give them back Jamal.

wow i didn't know Jow Forums had so many mail fraud and business law experts, especially on a technology forum at midnight-3am

If it’s undoubtedly addressed to OP, or “resident” at OPs address, then yes. The fact that it bears the name of nobody there makes things iffy. Could possibly be misaddressed. Maybe a package was supposed to go to 101 Elm St, but got keyed in as 1001 Elm St.

This.

Sell them before the IMEI numbers are blacklisted.

They have a spying chip inside of them, RETARD!

I used to work in Sprint's Fraud prevention office about 7-8 years ago. This sounds like a fraudulent order, many gentlemen of black or brown skin pigmentation do this because it increases the chances that the fraudulent order passes the checks in the backoffice. Sprint fraut reps check to see if the business is legit, and if it is, most of the time they let it slide because legit US businesses are considered solid signs of legitimacy. The conman used a stolen card, probably. Many times they simply fail to pick up the package because they lose track of it and it ends up being delivered to the address of the business they tried to use as a front. Since I'm not american (eastern yuro) I don't really know what are the legal repercussions of keeping the phones though... I'd say returning them to Sprint would be wisest, long term. But I might be wrong

>gift people stacks of cash and they just happens to gift back things of equal value without any sort of administrative burden, i.e. taxes.

Take a phone each, sell two and have pizzas and beers on friday night to celebrate. Was there no sender info at all? Oh no. Too bad.

why do you have that file saved twice ?

Just contact the return address and just ask them why you got this order?

It's not that hard.

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Accountant here. Send them back. By using them, you're agreeing to an express contract. They can bill you personally when they find out that the original buyer didn't pay

I didn't realize that. They opened mail without the recipient there. That is actually illegal. If I were them, I would repackage that shit immediately and report to the handling company that you opened a package by mistake.

>I gave it to my neighbor opened, but am I now a federal criminal?
He can, in fact, prosecute. This is normal all over the world. Opening other peoples' mail is like stealing property and whatever else.

Return them they are to catch thief's and to incarcerate them

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Not in the US, that would be entrapment

>trap
I don't have any hot trap gifs or webms, sorry

Please

>Take a phone each
Then every single employee will be individually tracked by apple to have stolen an iphone once these are reported as stolen.

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You mention XS it those are X boxes.

...

If I were to guess.
Someone probably wrote the wrong address and it was supposed to go to someone else.
You should return to sender because once the legit recipient realizes they haven't gotten their shit, they'll know exactly where it went

This is what happened with some clothes I bought
I put down one wrong number on my address and called in about it, but it was already shipped.
They said they had to wait for it to be returned or they would report it as stolen. But it was going to be a while til I actually got my stuff.

>some middle eastern sounding name.
jamal?

itt an illiterate