[stomachmonkey]

Sounds fishy but there are some very resourceful people out there.

One of my ecommerce clients would occasionally call about a customer that wanted to do a return.

The merchant had a record of shipping to the person but the transaction was not in the merchant account DB to initiate a return.

One day I needed to pull a couple of months worth of transaction logs. I sorted the spreadsheet to make it easier to find something and an entire block of the same email address came up, purchaser was all the same but ship to's were all different.

I found the guys website based on his email address.

He had hundreds of products listed.

What he was doing is if he got an order he came to my clients site, purchased the product on his credit card but had it shipped to the original purchaser.

He was running a mail order catalog but had no inventory in stock.