Reshipper Scam. Giant Tons LLC

Here is one from Giant Tons LLC:

Hello,

Growing Company Requires Employee

Position: Goods processing manager
Full time
First month’s salary: $2,500
Maximum possible monthly salary: $3,000

Principal duties*:
1) Receive parcels of goods from our partners' storage facilities;
2) Check parcel contents and prepare periodic reports;
3) Repackage parcels if required by the customer;
4) Send goods parcels to our managers.

* Further details of the position’s duties are to be found in the job description enclosed herewith.

No special skills are required for this job. We highly value our employees’ honesty, diligence, and willingness to work.
You will need Internet access and a printer for this job.

We have reviewed your resume and find your application satisfactory. We are prepared to hire you for this position. In this regard, we enclose an employment contract.
Please read through the contract carefully, sign it, and send the signed contract to us by fax, or scan and send it to us by e-mail.

Please indicate in the agreement a phone number at which we may contact you.
After we receive the signed contract from you, our manager will contact you by phone. Our manager will provide you with all instructions necessary for the job. The first month will be a probationary period. During this time, we will try to determine whether or not you are a good match for us.

Payment
You may choose any convenient payment method from the following:
- Cheques (to be sent to you by mail);
- Western Union transfer;
- PayPal.

Starting from the second month, payment will be made once every two weeks.
We do not conduct additional interviews; our hiring decisions are made based on assessment of candidates' resumes and our communications by phone.

We wish you every success.

Katherine C. Malin
Fax (877) 741-6216
[email protected]

gianttons.com
GiantTons.com LLC
1001 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146

Someone I know is realizing he is in the midst of this and is filing reports. Got this 'job' from Craigslist.

GiantTons LLC

I live in St. Louis and work in the same building in which this company is located. It is a fully legitimate company.

Welcome to ScamWarners JohnStl2012. While the location may be legitimate, the JOB is not. Scammers often use the names and addresses of legitimate companies to make their scams appear to be legitimate.

No employer pays it's employees by Western Union. I doubt that very many pay their employees by PayPal. Employers have to keep records and pay taxes on for their employees. Any checks sent by this scammer will be forgeries.

After doing some research on this "company", I find it to meet all of the criteria for a SCAM, and you are a shill for the scammer.

Our US office employs 11 people (purchasing department – 5 employees - and incoming and outgoing shipments department – 6 employees). All our employees are trained to a high level and many of them have been in their positions for over 2 years. In 2008, we opened an office in Germany and began offering purchasing and delivery services from within Europe. In 2010, another branch was opened in China. Our employees and partners not only speak Russian, but are also fluent in English, German, and Chinese. With branches in three of the biggest markets, our Company can make purchases for clients in every corner of the globe.

hmmm...

The "job" is absurd. No real employer would have you do those duties at your home. Sending items to other "managers"?

The GiantTons.com company’s service provides customers from other countries with a delivery address in the United States—namely, the address of our storage facility in the northeastern United States. Using this address, customers can receive goods in the United States, group purchases together, and then organize their international deliveries. In this way, our services provide international customers with full access to the American retail market and reduce the cost of international delivery.

I thought they were in St Louis.

Whois information for domain: gianttons.com

giantTons.com
IP address: 91.203.4.45
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Referrer: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Created: 2012-02-24
Updated: 2012-02-24
Expires: 2013-02-24
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: ns1.tuthost.com
Name Server: ns2.tuthost.com

Scammers only register their sites for a year because they expect to lose them. The company claims to have been around for decades. hmmm....

I am so glad I found this forum. I am a victim of this scam. What should I do? Any tips would be much appreciated.

Conwa just stop all contact with them. If you have sent money be aware it is gone for good and you will not get it back. Cheques will bounce after a few months and any money drawn against them will have to be refunded. Anyone who says they can get your money back from a scam is a scammer too.
Companies are unable to use Western Union as it is for private individuals. What they mean is, You use Western Union and we send fake cheques. And... We buy goods with stolen credit card details and you accept them and send them on to other criminals. Or in other words... the blame then sits on your shoulders when it all comes out-WHICH IT WILL IN THE END .

I fell victim of a reshipping scam. I got a bad feeling pretty quickly, so it didn't go on very long. I didn't give them any money, but I do have some merchandise they sent that I hadn't shipped yet. I was suppose to hold on to the packages until further notice (which is one of the many reasons I grew suspicious). Well they are now emailing me telling me to ship them and sent me shipping labels to ship out of the country. I don't want any part of this. I certainly am not going to follow their instructions. I already filed a report with the usps fraud dept. but it didn't say what to do next. After I submitted the form it just said they'd contact me if they needed any info, but nothing about how to correctly go about returning this stuff. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I'm guessing the packages were being shipped to Ukraine, or somewhere in the FSU?

You can file a police report, and see if the police want to take the packages as evidence (often they don't, though), or if there is contact information for the original sellers of the merchandise, you can contact them.

Hello conwa,

Sorry to hear you were involved in this scam. The scammer bought the merchandise using stollen credit cards and had it shipped to you in hopes you would inturn ship the merchandise to the scammer. Basically they used you to move stollen goods. So once the fraudulent charges are reported it leads the money trail to you not the scammer. Good news is you got suspicious before sending the merchandise. You can open the packages and see if there is a packing list. Contact the seller of the items and explain the situation. More than likely the sellers are not going to know the item was bought with a stollen credit card yet. It can take months for this to be reported. They may just tell you to hold on to the items. Either way get the names of who you talk to and keep good records. Print out all the emails you recieved from the scammers.You may want to also file a report with your local police. All this will help your case if legal action is taken against you. Even though you had no idea or intentions to do it you were unwillingly involved in a crime because of the scammer.


It would also be a great help to post the scammers info like the name, email address and first emails to you. This can help others avoid the scammer.

Justin

They want me to ship to Russia. I take it you've seen this before.
I have already printed every single email correspondence between me and them and put in a folder in case it ever comes about I need it.

The scammers are:


Katherine C. Malin
Fax (877) 741-6216
[email protected]

gianttons.com
GiantTons.com LLC
1001 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146

and

Personal manager
Edward K. Perez
Tel (314) 561-8757
Fax (866) 431-7390
[email protected]

gianttons.com
GiantTons.com LLC
1001 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146

Here's the first email: (I responded to a job posting then received this email)

Hello,

Growing Company Requires Employee

Position: Goods processing manager
Full time
First month’s salary: $2,500
Maximum possible monthly salary: $3,000

Principal duties*:
1) Receive parcels of goods from our partners' storage facilities;
2) Check parcel contents and prepare periodic reports;
3) Repackage parcels if required by the customer;
4) Send goods parcels to our managers.

* Further details of the position’s duties are to be found in the job description enclosed herewith.

No special skills are required for this job. We highly value our employees’ honesty, diligence, and willingness to work.
You will need Internet access and a printer for this job.

We have reviewed your resume and find your application satisfactory. We are prepared to hire you for this position. In this regard, we enclose an employment contract.
Please read through the contract carefully, sign it, and send the signed contract to us by fax, or scan and send it to us by e-mail.

Please indicate in the agreement a phone number at which we may contact you.
After we receive the signed contract from you, our manager will contact you by phone. Our manager will provide you with all instructions necessary for the job. The first month will be a probationary period. During this time, we will try to determine whether or not you are a good match for us.

Payment
You may choose any convenient payment method from the following:
- Cheques (to be sent to you by mail);
- Western Union transfer;
- PayPal.

Starting from the second month, payment will be made once every two weeks.
We do not conduct additional interviews; our hiring decisions are made based on assessment of candidates' resumes and our communications by phone.

We wish you every success.



Katherine C. Malin
Fax (877) 741-6216
[email protected]

gianttons.com

GiantTons.com LLC
1001 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146

www.gianttons.com has been reported for fraud.

Thank you for the info Mike.

conwa - That is the same email as mine. You can file scam reports here:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx (FBI partner site)

Also here they will tell you what to do:

http://www.fraudaid.com/contact/process ... o_list.htm


I've also contacted the id theft victim and they contacted their local police and is filing a FBI report.

When I recently started 'working' for them their name did not come up in google search with scam because they just started this wave of 'jobs' with this company name. Now their name is showing up in searches with the word scam. Lets all post everywhere using their name with the word scam so no new job seekers get scammed.

JohnStl2012 is one of Giant Tons employees posing as a bystander. As you can see, he registered just to counter the comments here.

Thank you for the links. I will look into both of them.

And yes, the same as you, when I looked them up on google I found nothing because I guess it was still new. I thought for sure if it were a scam I'd find it through google.

Unfortunately, some well-intentioned or angry targets confront scammers, pointing them to threads like this one as evidence. While the desire to respond that way is certainly understandable, that alerts the scammers to the information, and will often trigger them to change their fake names and/or email addresses to something that hasn't been reported. When they approach the next targets using their new information, there will be no reports yet to be found.