The Scam Alert Blog

There is an old scam that still rears its ugly head now and then. Here is the story about a recent case of the re-mailing scam. The way it works is that basically someone asks a new acquaintance if they can receive some merchandise they ordered for them. The merchandise was ordered with a stolen credit card and the thief is using their acquaintance as a safe house to take delivery of it. This type of crime has three victims, the legal owner of the credit card who most likely will eventually get reimbursed, the seller of the merchandise who often gets nothing in return, and the person who was used as the drop house.