Why Most Reshipping-Package Forwarding Job Offers Are Fraudulent

Over the last 3 years we have warned our readers about many fake companies offering re-shipping or package forwarding positions working from home. These positions were presented as high paying titles such as Logistic Managers, Package Handlers, Package Managers, Shipping Agents as well as many other “job” titles and every one of these companies we warned our readers about were indeed proven to be scams. But with so many websites online offering shipping services and logistics it can be hard to determine what’s legitimate and what isn’t unless you know what to look for.

Yes it’s true that many retailers in the US will not ship merchandise to many countries outside the US and some won’t even ship to Alaska or Hawaii. Shipping costs, tariffs, taxes, conversion rates and issues with customs holding packages for weeks or customers not receiving their purchases at all is extremely costly and causes too many headaches for retailers and merchant accounts through chargebacks, not to mention the high risk for credit card fraud which is difficult to trace overseas. All issues that can potentially cost businesses millions of dollars, so retailers simply choose not to accept international purchases.

Because of this fact, there has been hundreds of “businesses” created to allow overseas buyers a way to purchase items from retailers in the US that they either can’t get in their country, or the item is a much lower cost than they can find in their country even with the additional costs these businesses charge for their services. Some of these Legitimate reshipping businesses include Shipito, Stackry, MyUS, Vyking Ship and Shopfans, just to name a few. These companies operate from a legitimate registered business address complete with warehousing and can be easily verified as legitimate along with real reviews both good and bad from real customers who use them .

But the problem is while there are some legitimate businesses offering these services such as those mentioned above, MANY reshipping businesses are not real and are operated by criminals because they realize they can utilize this “service” as an easy way to launder stolen credit card information to obtain electronics and other high dollar merchandise that can easily be sold for cash and can’t be traced back to the criminals.

These fake businesses use unverifiable or virtual business addresses, are NOT legally registered, has confusingly vague info with little to no online presence or history other than their website and can NOT be verified as legitimate! Some will actually use the business name of a one time legitimate unrelated business that is either currently or no longer in business and they have been known to create a fraudulent online presence/history through fake blogs creating backdated articles about the business in order to appear legitimate.

Reshipping scams has proven to be an extremely profitable and evergreen online business for these criminals because when one fake website gets shut down, they can simply throw up another website within in a day and some even operate multiple websites under different business names at the same time! However, they would NOT be able to successfully pull their scam off without willing participants in place to help them!

And those willing participants are the unsuspecting job seekers in the US that accept the fake Logistic Manager and Shipping agent etc. work at home positions the scammers offer to them!

Careerbuilder And Other Job Board Sites

These criminals typically scrape the email addresses of job seekers with resumes posted on job sites such as CareerBuilder, Indeed, Monster.com and others. Then they go phishing by pretending to be recruiters and send out emails to these job seekers with high paying part time job offers trying to get them to take the bait.

For example, one reader recently received 4 emails the same day from a “recruiter” claiming to be an HR Manager of an international shipping company using the name Mrs. Monica L. Salgado. All 4 emails were sent from different email addresses with different “reply to” email addresses as shown below:

chisako815@i.softbank.jp
reply to: Shar.onLer.oy.320@gmail.com

koen@diepmeeren.be
reply to: Sha.r.onL.e.r.oy.3.20@gmail.com

miltmirand@ig.com.br
reply to: Sh.a.ron.Le.roy.3.20@gmail.com

linda.laferriere@cssmi.qc.ca
reply to: kiudslo@mail.ru

The initial email showed up in their inbox and then an hour or so later a follow up email came through. Then several hours later another email similar to the first one came through with another follow up email an hour later:

I am an HR Manager of international shipping company. We assist in ordering various types of merchandise from US suppliers from anywhere in the world in a convenient way.

We would like to offer you a part-time position:
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee;
Total Compensation: $38k+ annual;
Payment Basis: commission-based in the amount of $40 for every parcel you receive and send out.

Requirements:
Ability to devote 1-4 hours per day to this job;
Ability to schedule working hours effectively Possibility to combine the job with primary employment;
Ability to use Internet and e-mail;
Ability to print out documentsprinter is required

We are looking for Logistics Manager in the United States. No relocation is required.

The salary is commission-based, and it will typically require up to 6 hours per week to fulfil your duties. You should be able to perform your duties during regular
business hours. Your primary duty will be getting packages from US supplierslike HP, Tigerdirect, Zappos, shipping them out and keeping communication with your personal
manager. You will get paid $40 for each package received and shipped.

If you are interested in this job please contact me.

Best regards, Mrs. Monica L. Salgado

Here is the follow up email:

Sorry for inconvenience. I do not wish to seem intrusive. However, as I have not gotten your return message as of yet, this is my second try to reach you. I, Mrs. Monica Salgado, sent you an email offering a job with our company. My initial email highlighted short information about the job opening. I am just trying to make sure that you have gotten the message.
If you received the email, and are interested, please confirm. If you find our proposition appealing, still did not receive the message, I will gladly re-send it. Once again, I do apologize for possible inconvenience. We would be glad to see you join our expanding international team.

P.S.: It could be the case that my initial email got blocked by your spam filter. Therefore, please check your spam folder.

Best regards,
Mrs. Monica Salgado

Then below is the 2nd set of emails the reader received only hours later:

Sorry for inconvenience. I do not want to seem intrusive. Nevertheless, as I have not gotten your reply as of yet, that is my second attempt to get in touch with you. I, Mrs. Monica Salgado, sent you an email proposing a position with our company. My previous message contained general information about the job opening. I am just trying to make sure that you have gotten the message.
If you received the email, and are interested, please confirm your interest by sending a return email to me. If you find the job offer interesting, though did not receive the message, I will sure re-send it. Once again, I do apologize for possible inconvenience. We would be glad to see you join our expanding international team.

P.S.: It could be the case that my previous message got blocked by your spam filter. Therefore, please check your spam folder.

Respectfully,
Mrs. Monica Salgado

 

———- Forwarded message ———-

Subject: a new vacancy has been provided

 

Good afternoon,
We would like to offer you a part-time position:
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee;
Total Salary: $38k+ annual;

Requirements:
Ability to dedicate 1-4 hours a day to do this job;
Ability to schedule working hours effectively Possibility to combine the job with primary employment;
Ability to use Internet and e-mail;
Ability to print out documentsprinter is required

GVS Logistics is looking for Logistics Manager in the US. No relocation is required.

The salary is commission-based, and it will typically require up to 6 hours per week to complete your tasks. You should be able to perform your duties during regular
business hours. Your primary duty will be receiving packages from US supplierslike HP, Tigerdirect, Zappos, shipping them out and keeping communication with your supervisor. You will be receiving $40 for each package received and shipped.

If you are interested in this job please reply to this message.

An hour or so later..

I’ve emailed you couple messages with a vacancy. Did you receive my past letters?
If not, please let me know so that I could resend you the info.
Reply me ASAP, in case you are would like to know more.

Have a nice day,
Monica L. Salgado

 

This scammer was practically BEGGING for our reader to respond to their emails! Even though our reader suspected this was a scam, they decided to play along and responded to get more information about it. Almost immediately after replying another email showed up. This time it was from someone going by the name of Alice Stanton using the email alice.stanton303@gmail.com!

Subject: Job at GVS-Logistics

Hello (First Name),

I’m Alice, your personal manager.

Thanks for your inquiry! Now I’ll explain the details of this job.

1. A package will be shipped to you. I’ll let you know what’s
inside(usually it’s electronics or clothes) and the approximate
arrival date.

2. You should receive the package and send me the confirmation that
you’ve received it. Please note that most carriers(UPS, DHL, Fedex)
usually deliver before 3pm.

3. I’ll email you pre-paid USPS shipping label the day the package is
delivered to you. This means you won’t have to pay for shipping out of
your pocket. Shipping labels are in PDF or TIFF format so make sure
you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. You’ll have to print shipping
label and then take the printed label and the package to the Post
Office. Please try to ship the package the same day the it’s
delivered, you’ll get $40 for each package.

4. Then you should send an email to me to confirm the package is shipped.

5. The payments for your job are calculated and made every 4 weeks
starting from the day the 1st package is shipped. They can be sent to
your paypal account or by personal check, please choose the option.

Please ask me with more questions or if you’re willing to accept this
job offer please fill in the application form at
http://www.gvsl-group.com/careers.htm

Bye,

Alice Stanton

Here’s a screenshot of the www.gvsl-group.com/careers.htm page:

 

About GVS Logistics

The domain, gvsl-group.com was registered anonymously on 1/20/2017 for 1 year only. The website lists its business address, which of course cannot be verified as a legitimate address, as:

GVS Logistics
Derbenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 7C2
142057, Moscow, Russia

+7 495 5317591

They are aggressively recruiting people to work from home in the US as a “Correspondence Manager” accepting packages sent to their home address under someone else’s name from retailers where the “employee” then prints out a different shipping label and re-ships the package to yet a third party!

Therefore if the purchase proves to be fraudulent the shipping address the retailer will report to the authorities will be the “Correspondence Managers”, not the 3rd party receiver and certainly not GVS Logistics because the company is fake! The scammer gets away with the merchandise PLUS the employees personal information they can use months and years later to steal the employee’s identity!

Legitimate reshipping companies such as the businesses we listed previously, DOES NOT recruit employees by sending out unsolicited emails, nor do they hire re-shippers to work at home forwarding packages. They hire employees face to face at their hiring facility and the employees WORK at the companies facilities!

So don’t be fooled by the scammers and their BS! Some are very good at convincing people into believing they are legitimate. They lure their victims in with the promise of a “too good to be true salary” for part-time hours but as so many victims has already learned the hard way..they never receive a dime and many times end up with a visit from the police for receiving stolen goods!

What To Do If You Are A Victim

You can visit the USPIS website here for more details about re-shipping fraud.

If you believe you’re a victim of a re-shipping/forwarding scam, file a complaint with Postal Inspectors online or call Postal Inspectors at 1-877-876-2455 (option 4, Mail Fraud).

You will need to contact your bank immediately and close your account IF you have provided your account information to the scammers. Next file a police report with your local authorities and also report the scam at http://ic3.gov which is the official site working in conjunction with the FBI to help stop internet crime.

If you provided your personal information like ss # birthdate etc , you should contact the 3 credit bureaus- TransUnion, Equifax and Experian,  and place a fraud alert on your report. These criminals can steal your identity and may try and obtain credit in your name. Doing this will alert you for at least 90 days about any suspicious activity.

In the hands of a thief, just your name, address, Social Security number or date of birth, can be used over and over months- even years down the road to:

Open new lines of credit
Seek medical attention
Drain savings and retirement accounts
Provide an alias when arrested
Get a job or file false tax returns
Get Payday Loans in your name
Obtain service agreements for cellular service or utilities
Obtain Government Documents such as a drivers license or passport
And MORE!

That’s why I highly recommend you get some sort of ongoing identity theft protection such as the services offered through companies like LifeLock-Visit Their Website Here or Identity Force-visit their website here! LifeLock and Identity Force are both reputable companies that monitors your accounts and alerts and protects you from identity theft.

Have you received a suspicious email offering you a “job” with GVS Logistics or other work at home “Logistics Manager”, “Correspondence Manager” or “Remote Package Handler” job that you never requested info for? Feel free to copy and paste the email in the comments so we can help alert and prevent others from becoming victims.

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