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What you need to do now is be Pro-active. You need to contact your local police and inform them that you were a victim of a scam and used. Print out the emails to you, mail accounts used and phone numbers. Give them to the Police.
You will also want to save this information.
You will want to do this before the victims of the holders of the Credit cards, Bank account and Paypal notify the police.
You should also report it to IC3 http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
DID YOU ACCEPT A JOB TO RESHIP MERCHANDISE? OR
DID YOU ACCEPT A JOB TO RESHIP POSTAL MONEY ORDERS?
Work-at-Home Scams
Criminals post job announcements on Internet career sites offering work-at-home positions—sometimes advertised as “merchandising manager” or “package processing assistant.” Duties include receiving packages and mailing them to a foreign address on behalf of a client, using postage-paid mailing labels provided via email.
The real story? It’s a scam!
If you accept the job, you’ll receive packages containing one of two things:
Merchandise bought with stolen credit cards—the scammer needs your help to smuggle the goods out of the country.
Counterfeit postal money orders—the scammer wants your help to distribute them to other scammers.
Reshipping
The "reshipping" scheme requires individuals in the United States, who sometimes are coconspirators and other times are unwitting accomplices, to receive packages at their residence and subsequently repackage the merchandise for shipment, usually abroad.
"Reshippers" are being recruited in various ways but the most prevalent are through employment offers and conversing, and later befriending, unsuspecting victims through Internet Relay Chat Rooms.
Unknown subjects post help-wanted advertisements at popular Internet job search sites and respondents quickly reply to the online advertisement. As part of the application process, the prospective employee is required to complete an employment application, wherein he/she divulges sensitive personal information, such as their date of birth and social security number which, unbeknownst to the victim employee, will be used to obtain credit in his/her name.
The applicant is informed he/she has been hired and will be responsible for forwarding, or "reshipping", merchandise purchased in the United States to the company's overseas home office. The packages quickly begin to arrive and, as instructed, the employee dutifully forwards the packages to their overseas destination. Unbeknownst to the "reshipper," the recently received merchandise was purchased with fraudulent credit cards.
The second means of recruitment involves the victim conversing with the unknown individual in various Internet Relay Chat Rooms. After establishing this new online "friendship" or "love" relationship, the unknown subject explains for various legal reasons his/her country will not allow direct business shipments into his/her country from the United States. He/she then asks for permission to send recently purchased items to the victim's United States address for subsequent shipment abroad for which the unknown subject explains he/she will cover all shipping expenses.
After the United States citizen agrees, the packages start to arrive at great speed. This fraudulent scheme lasts several weeks until the "reshipper" is contacted. The victimized merchants explain to the "reshipper" the recent shipments were purchased with fraudulent credit cards. Shortly thereafter, the strings of attachment are untangled and the boyfriend/girlfriend realizes their Cyber relationship was nothing more than an Internet scam to help facilitate the transfer of goods purchased online by fraudulent means.
If you believe you may have fallen victim to this type of scam and wish to report it, please file a complaint with us.
Visit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to learn more about combating financial and economic crimes in Nigeria.
Bryon Williams wrote:Welcome to Scamwarners,
Sorry to say this but you were involved in a re-shipper scam. You will never be paid. .
This scammer was sending stolen merchandise purchased with stolen credit cards, bank account or Paypal to you. He had you basically launder it for him.
What you need to do now is be Pro-active. You need to contact your local police and inform them that you were a victim of a scam and used. Print out the emails to you, mail accounts used and phone numbers. Give them to the Police.
You will also want to save this information.
You will want to do this before the victims of the holders of the Credit cards, Bank account and Paypal notify the police.
You should also report it to IC3 http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
