How it works
You are recruited through a job advert, a recruiter message, or a hiring email for a role with titles like "package processing agent" or "quality control shipping coordinator". The job sounds simple: receive parcels, check them, repackage them, and send them on with labels the company provides.
The parcels contain goods - phones, electronics, clothing - bought with stolen payment details. By forwarding them, usually overseas, you break the trail between the criminal and the merchandise. You are the visible local address that takes the risk while the organisers stay hidden.
Why it works and who is targeted
The offer targets people looking for flexible, work-from-home income: students, carers, the recently unemployed, and newcomers to a country. It is dressed in professional language with contracts, dashboards, and an onboarding process that make it feel like a real company.
It works because nothing seems to leave your bank account - you are receiving and sending, not paying - so the risk is hidden. The cost lands later, when the promised salary never comes and when banks, couriers, or police trace the stolen goods back to your name and address.
Red flags in detail
Any job whose core task is receiving parcels and reshipping them, especially to addresses abroad, should be treated as a reshipping scam. Watch for prepaid labels sent to you, instructions to remove or replace existing labels and invoices, and pressure to forward items quickly.
Payment held back until after a trial period, a salary that depends on processing a quota of packages, and a company you cannot verify with a real registration or address are all strong signs. Legitimate logistics employers do not run operations out of your home letterbox.
What to do and how to stay safe
Do not take any job built around receiving and forwarding parcels, and do not reship packages for an employer you cannot fully verify. Check the company name against an official business register and search for the role wording, which often appears word for word in scam warnings.
If you have already started, stop reshipping immediately and do not send on any parcel you still hold. Keep all packages, labels, and messages, and report it to the police and to the courier - cooperating early protects you if the stolen goods are traced.
