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If you shop online for gifts this month, you may be a target for thieves who tail couriers as they deliver packages to your doorstep.

Greg Parslow’s hidden camera caught video of a man as he made off with a package ordered by his daughter and delivered by FedEx to his Langley home.

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“They came in behind the courier’s van and drove very slowly to see if there was a package at the door,” he said. “It’s pretty clear they were following FedEx looking for something to steal. They even had the licence plate covered in case there were cameras.”

The video shows a dark-coloured sports car glide by the driveway, stop and then back in. A man dressed in a T-shirt and ball cap gets out, walks to the front door and returns with a package, then drives away.

The front door area is at the end of a narrow path, partly obscured by shrubs.

“If you were driving by at a normal speed you never would have seen it,” Parslow said. “If there had been a car in the driveway, I think he would have kept on going.”