The Reshipping Scam
Beware of online ads looking for a “correspondence manager.” This Internet scam claims that an offshore corporation that has no U.S. address or bank account needs someone to take goods sent to their address and reship them overseas, including online wire transfers into your bank account, to be transferred your new boss’s account. Collecting a percentage of the goods or money transferred is your payment.
These products are actually purchased online using stolen credit cards and shipped to your address, where you reship them to the thieves, who will fence them overseas. The wire transfers are actually stolen funds being laundered through your account. Eventually your bank account will be cleaned-out, and now you’re an accomplice to an online scam.
When the federal authorities question you about the matter you will have the difficult task of explaining why it never occurred to you that a legitimate company should have been able to receive their own mail.
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