noone: What is this scam – to recieve “business materials”, keep them in a safe place and have someone pick them up?
I’m pretty sure these are scams. But what is the scam? They say they want to send stuff to you then have you hold onto it untill they send someone else to pick the items up? Another variation i have seen its to receive the items, recieve lump sums of money and use the money to mail out the items. What is this? What are they trying to pull? Are they stolen or illegal goods?
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Answer by Judy
First thing that comes to mind is that they are using stolen credit card numbers.
They will use your address to ship the items.
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Yes, it is so if the feds get on this, you are the one to go to jail. Also the lumps of money will be counterfeit checks that will bounce a couple of months after you have cashed them then you will owe the bank big time.Answer by Kittysue
What is the scam? They are buying things online using stolen credit card numbers and hacked Paypal accounts and shipping them to your home. When the real account holder reports the fraud and the credit card companies or Paypal investigate, they find out all the items were shipped to your home address – and you are arrested for theft. The criminals running these scams are off scott free as you have no idea of the real name, address or contact details of the person who picked up the item from you. Do you think any police officer or jury is going to believe that you were naive enough to fall for this scam? Of course not.
And if they are sending you money, they are sending you counterfeit checks, bank drafts or money orders. While the bank will release the funds to you in 3-4 days, the reality is that it can take up to 4 weeks for the bank to find out these checks were either counterfeit, or were stolen from the legitimate account holder. Once again, when the banks investigate, they find that these were deposited into your personal account – so you are the one who will be arrested.
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