A work-from-home job promising easy money and a fancy title like “delivery operations specialist” or “quality control manager” might sound great. But if the offer says all you need to do is receive shipments, repackage them, and send them on to a new address, it’s a reshipping scam. Here’s what the “employer” leaves out of the job description.
When scammers send fake job offers, they sometimes lie about being affiliated with familiar companies like Amazon or FedEx. And they use stolen credit card or bank information to send you high-dollar items (like brand new electronics). Your “job” is to throw out the original box and receipt and send those stolen goods on to another address, often an international one, where it can’t be tracked.
You may not even know it was a scam until payday comes and goes without a word (or a dollar) — and your “employer” has ghosted you. And if you shared personal information like a bank account or Social Security number or a photocopy of your ID, you might have an identity theft problem.
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