'Out of box' con

In one such case, a city-based businessman received a call about an incoming parcel.

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Assuming someone in the family had ordered it, he asked his society’s watchman to accept the delivery and pay the due amount. Later that evening, after reimbursing the watchman, he opened the box — only to find it stuffed with rags. To make the ruse convincing, the scammers had even pasted forged stickers of a popular e-commerce platform on the package.