by Nikaiah Krause

Created on: May 02, 2007

The Re-shipping scam is one of the biggest scams on the Internet over the past couple of years. According to federal officials it seems to be the biggest multi-billion dollar scheme in the country. And the reason I know this is because I myself fell victim to this awful scam.

I am currently an at home mother and over the past 7 months I have been struggling to find a legitimate work from home job to make up for the income I had lost when we had to move. I came across a company listed on Careerbuilder.com named International Delivery LLC, and they were looking for people to ship packages oversees for them from there home. That seemed to me to be the simplest job ever! And the pay seemed more than fair. So I sent them my name, address, and paypal account information so I could get paid once I started shipping packages. What my job intailed was I was to receive a package from a company that a customer placed an order with, once I receive that package I was then told to email the Delivery company to let them know it was received, then they would email me shipping labels to print out and put on the packages, the postage was always prepaid, and then take the package to the local post office and ship it to the address oversees. Well at first I was just shipping out orders of small beauty products but then after a few weeks it turned into high end electronics such as laptops and 20"LCD monitors. I started to get a bit suspicious after a while and noticed something strange about the shipping labels that came already on the packages vs. the shipping labels they had me print off. The difference was the package would always come to my address with someone else's name on it which was a resident of the U.S., but the new shipping label that I had to put on the package would be addressed to a totally different person in another country. And I was told to take the receipts and invoices out of the packages that had the original purchasers name on them and throw them away. To me something just wasn't right. Then I started to receive credit card statements in the mail with my address on them and the original purchasers name on it. I thought this was very strange. But what the company didn't know is that I had kept every single invoice that was sent along with every email just in case something went wrong. And it did. Once I started getting the credit card statements I gathered them up along with all of the emails and invoices and took them straight to the local police department.

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