Reshipping Merchandise Scams
- Immediately cease all contact with the scammer! Block their email address, ignore their instant messages, ignore their phone calls
- Make copies if your email conversations, and instant messages. Keep originals for yourself, give copies to the various reporting agencies, and keep all receipts and envelopes, anything that can be used as evidence
- Contact your Postal Carrier/Post Office and ask that no packages to be delivered at your home/ work
- Contact your Postal Carrier/Post Office if you have been sent packages or letters to forward for a scammer. Keep the envelopes or shipping package for evidence
- Contact any companies that have sent you gifts or merchandise and inform them that they were purchased on a stolen credit card and make arraignments to have the items returned
- Contact your local Police Department, to make a report
For a more detailed list of how these scams are see Scammer education 101
For information on recovering some of your losses
Helpful Links:
- FBI IFCC, the US Postal Inspection Service, and the FTC to make a report on line: http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/
- Western Union: http://www.westernunion.com/info/selectCountry.asp
- Postal Service Joins Fight Against Internet Fraud: http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/mccutcheon121605.html
- U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS): http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/moalert.htm
- Place a fraud report on your credit report: http://financialcrimestaskforce.com/action.html
- Contact this agency for help returning merchandise to the retailers http://www.merchantriskcouncil.org/contact.php
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