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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: greencrayon on March 11, 2012, 12:31 am

Title: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: greencrayon on March 11, 2012, 12:31 am
Using a fake name is dumb, and having a package shipped to a long-abandoned residence is dumb. Both arouse suspicion. But most of us are probably familiar with mail addressed to "Current Resident". Especially if you live in an apartment complex.

The benefit would be that if a seller gets busted, they will not have your name on file. Hopefully they are not keeping names anyway, but you can't really know. Or there is a chance that a LEO extorts a seller into cooperating with them to gain information. Unlikely, since they usually want to go higher up, not lower down, but possible.

Do you think the pros outweigh the cons? It might be slightly suspicious if it looks like a personal letter, but it is not out of the ordinary for a business to send something promotional to "current resident". The downside is that this diminishes the strength of plausible deniability. Obviously someone was not trying to frame you they did not even use your name. You were trying to cover your own ass.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: personaluse on March 11, 2012, 12:42 am
I personally think it would sound a bit suspicious.

Although... I do get a lot of 'To the householder' advertising items. If you could negotiate with your seller to rig it so it looks like this maybe - but that would ruin the whole point of deniability in the first place (i.e. if they got busted/comms intercepted etc).

I ship to my own name - and I think I'd just roll with the story that I have no idea why the hell it came to my place!

Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: spd on March 11, 2012, 05:17 am
How many things addressed to "Current Resident" have you seen w/ priority mailing, delivery confirmation etc??  None I'm guessing.  Would most likely be a huge red flag to the PO.  Doubt most vendors would even agree to send to an address like that.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: greencrayon on March 11, 2012, 11:51 am
I'm new. Do vendors usually use delivery confirmation? Why, is that for the escrow service?
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: jollygiant on March 11, 2012, 01:42 pm
DCN is mostly for their protection, so they can prove they sent the package and not get scammed by people wanting free drugs.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: spd on March 11, 2012, 10:34 pm
I'm new. Do vendors usually use delivery confirmation? Why, is that for the escrow service?

A lot of vendors do - to prove they mailed a package - and will often give them to customer as well so they can check on the status of the package.  Even if a vendor didn't use DCN - I think most of the packages here would look suspicious with a generic "Current Resident" type name.   

If you wanted a little added safety, you could use your first initial/full last name (or vice versa) - or use a slight misspelling (different enough so that the vendor doesn't know your real name - but close enough that the mail carrier will assume that it was just a simple typo and it is meant for you.)

Also since you're new , make sure you're familiar with PGP so that you can encrypt your name/address when sending it to the vendor.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: trancesend on March 11, 2012, 10:45 pm
I don't think it's a good idea.  For one, I've never gotten a mailing from SR that actually looked liked legitimate junk mail.  The kind of stuff that usually has "current resident" on it tends to be in a window envelope, or is a newspaper type flier, not printed out labels (and some senders still hand-write the address on the envelope).
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: greencrayon on March 12, 2012, 12:16 am
Okay. Thanks guys, I won't use Current Resident. I have a unique last name so I will just have to trust the vendors.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: ProfADaemon on March 18, 2012, 09:51 am
Using a fake name is dumb, and having a package shipped to a long-abandoned residence is dumb. Both arouse suspicion. But most of us are probably familiar with mail addressed to "Current Resident". Especially if you live in an apartment complex.


When have you EVER seen mail addressed to "Current Resident" that wasn't sent with USPS Bulk rate through a business account?

Nobody receives anything but bulk sort junkmail to Current Resident... so it would stick out like a sore fucking thumb if you sent Silk Road mail to Current Resident.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: dr34dl0ck on March 19, 2012, 03:57 am
Sounds way sketch.
Title: Re: Using "Current Resident" as Recipient Name
Post by: oktoy on March 23, 2012, 03:33 pm
I receive on thing from amazon using "Current Occupant" I believe. I think it was a nitrous cracker. Or it could have been Phenazepam, I forget.