by Arnold
Tue May 31, 2011 3:27 am
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/05/20/fbi ... cks-scams/
The reshipper scam has been around for a long time, but gift wrapping is a new and plausible pretext for having victims reshipping stolen goods.
In a new twist on this scam, fraudsters hire unsuspecting victims as "Gift Wrapper Associates" to receive and gift-wrap merchandise before shipping it to another address. Recent complaints to the IC3 by victims of this scam say they replied to ads on Craigslist, while others say they were contacted by email, possibly via a resume they posted online.
The reshipper scam has been around for a long time, but gift wrapping is a new and plausible pretext for having victims reshipping stolen goods.
