Has anyone heard about the company Western Transportation?

Question

My friend told me its this company that will like ship packages to your house and then you take them to the post office with prepaid packaging lables that the company sends you. You send it off with that and thats about it. He said you get paid like 1500 a month for doing it. Is this a real thing or just a big hoax? He has done it for like two weeks and sent about ten packages. It all seems ligit but for some reason i just cant believe it. All the packages he sends goes to a foreign place. So if anyone knows, help me out?

Answer 1

It sounds like a reshipping scam. There are several varients to it, but it most likely involves stolen property or property bought with stolen credit cards.

What will happen is that the law enforcement will come to where the packages were sent. To your friend. Odds are, the $1500 per month will not pan out. Especially when the police catch up with what is going on. Your friend may have legal liabilities in all of this. Especially, if the scammers used any of his personal info to commit the transactions.

Here is some info:

http://www.fraudguides.com/home-business-reshipping-fraud.asp

http://featuredreports.monster.com/privacy/illegalscams/

http://www.financialcrimestaskforce.com/reshipping.html

http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.01.2005/877/