Three Incidents

An odd story in 3 incidents:

1) A foreign friend, who once had Amazon ship a package to my house, had their Amazon account hacked.

2) The other day, an Amazon package arrived at my house addressed to this friend. Because we were home, we brought it in immediately and puzzled over it. We didn’t know about incident 1.

3) Later that day a stranger came running up to our porch, and then left in a hurry, empty-handed. Our house is being painted and the painters puzzled over this. Our guess is that he was a porch pirate trying to get the package from incident 2.

So, this seems like a globe-spanning scam. I don’t really understand the logistics. But they were foiled this time.

The items in the package are not super valuable. Conceivably they are worth a couple of hundred dollars. It seems like a lot of trouble to try to obtain these things.

As you can see, I lack
Proper insight into this hack.
Also - does Amazon want these items back?