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Package and envelopes whose contents
you have been instructed to re-ship
MONEY ORDER
WARNING! Counterfeiters are now inventing
the names of money order companies. DO NOT CASH any money
order and DO NOT DEPOSIT any money order you receive from someone
you do not know or someone you met online without ordering your bank to send it for
collection.
Cease all
correspondence with the scammers. Do not open or answers their
emails. If you have caller ID, do not answer their calls.
If you do answer the phone, hang up as soon as you realize who is calling you.
If they persist, blow a whistle into the telephone. If you are
being threatened, please go here:
http://www.fraudaid.com/threats.htm
If you have been
corresponding with the scammers by email and/or have gone to a web
site they told you is theirs, you are at high risk of Identity Theft
even if you have bad credit. Go here:
www.fraudaid.com/id_theft.htm.
File a Scam Email
Report with our Law Enforcement Support Division. You will
find step-by-step graphic instructions for your email service here:
www.fraudaid.com/find_headers.htm.
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Western Union and MoneyGram were
designed to send money to friends and family, not to send
money to strangers.
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You have been told you
will be receiving merchandise or envelopes for reshipment:
Refuse to
accept the delivery when it arrives and inform the delivery
person that the package contains materials from a scammer.
We have heard of instances where entire
truckloads of electronics have been delivered to someone
like you, and the truck drivers are not very happy when told
to take everything back. It's hard on a trucker to do
that when he is expecting to have an empty container to fill
with another delivery for the return trip. Be
understanding, don't return his anger, explain what is going
on. Remember, now he's a victim of the scam as well.
Contact the
delivery service office and inform them you just refused
delivery on items sent to you by a scammer.
File a
report with the FBI online (not at the local
Field Office):
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
Follow the
instructions
on the first page of this section for Identity Theft
Prevention and filing Scam Email Reports.
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You received packages or
envelopes for reshipment and still have them:
Refuse all
future deliveries and inform the delivery person that the
package contains materials from a scammer. Follow the
instructions in 1. above.
Contact each merchant that is shipping packages to you and
explain what is going on. Ask if they want the merchandise returned
to them and if they will pay for shipping.
Packages
and envelopes delivered by the US Post Office - Return to
any Post Office, obtain a receipt for what you returned, and
file a fraud report.
Packages
and envelopes delivered by UPS, DHL, and Federal Express -
Return to their nearest shipping office, obtain a receipt,
and file a fraud report.
In some instances, you may have to simply drop
off the packages at your local law enforcement office, telling
them you discovered the merchandise was purchased with stolen
credit cards and the merchants do not want it back and the
carrier won't accept the packages either. Do not
forget to obtain a receipt for whatever you drop off.
File a
General Crime Report with your local law enforcement -
Scammers often target entire townships so there may be
others in town who are falling victim to the same scammer.
File a
report with the FBI online (not at the local
Field Office):
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
Follow the
instructions
on the first page of this section for Identity Theft
Prevention and filing Scam Email Reports.
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You received packages
or envelopes and sent them to the
addresses supplied to you by the scammers:
Refuse all
future deliveries and inform the delivery person that the
package contains materials from a scammer. Follow the
instructions in 1. above.
File a
General Crime Report with your local law enforcement -
Scammers often target entire townships so there may be
others in town who are falling victim to the same scammer.
File a
report with the FBI online (not at the local
Field Office):
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx. Be sure
to list every name and address you shipped the packages,
envelopes, or envelope contents to.
Contact each merchant that is shipping packages to you and
explain what is going on.
Contact our
Law Enforcement Support Division immediately if you sent
packages, checks or money orders to addresses in the US or Canada:
Contact our
Law Enforcement Support Division immediately if you received
packages or envelopes containing currency:
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If your circumstances do not fit the above solution or if you have
difficulties negotiating with merchants or law enforcement, please write to
so we can
review your problem and offer alternate solutions or intervention.
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