Reshipper Victims are netted (hooked) by fake direct response emails to a job seeker’s online resume or by fake job offers sent by bulk email.
The patter (what the scammers say):
A member of the scam group (scamployer) poses as foreign company, charitable organization, investment firm,
artist or other self-employed person seeking employees to forward merchandise purchased in the US. The reason
given is that their customers will pay more for products that arrive directly from the US.
Duties:
- To receive merchandise for forwarding to various company re-shipping hubs that will in turn forward to the
company’s customers, or to ship merchandise directly to one of the company’s customer’s.
- To receive pre-printed, pre-addressed [FedEx, DHL, Airborne Express] labels from the scamployer and apply them
to the merchandise as directed by the scamployer via email and ship.
- To receive shipments from the scamployer. These shipments are usually counterfeit drafts in individual
pre-addressed and stamped envelopes which the scamployee is instructed by email or telephone to post. The
envelopes are addressed to US residents who are most often other Payment Processing Scam victims or
Overpayment Scam victims (not on this chart – see Overpayment Fraud: Click Here).
Sometimes the scamployee receives a shipment batch of anywhere from 10 to 15 or so counterfeit drafts in
one envelope. Email instructions provide individual names, addresses, and check amounts; the scamployee is
supposed to provide the envelopes and postage and mail the drafts to US residents.
In both instances the reason given is that these are payments to other company employees, customer refunds,
etc. Reshipper Victims are at increased risk of Identity Theft. See Stolen Identity and Financial Data on
this flow chart.
