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Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed, Part I

Summary: Krebs on Security describes reshipping scams in which criminals use stolen credit card numbers to buy high-end electronics and ship them to US and European residents recruited through craigslist.com work-at-home ads, who then relay the goods to buyers in regions retailers will not ship to, such as Eastern Europe, North Africa and Russia. One operation, dropforrent.net, paid managers and clients 30 percent of the value of laptops from ACER, HP, Toshiba, Dell, Compaq and Samsung and more than 40 percent of retail for Apple, Sony, VAIO, Canon and Nikon products, and records showed drops recruited through the applestore-direct.com front shipped more than 800 orders worth at least a quarter million dollars since the start of the year.

Bottom line: The drops are ordinary people answering job ads, and the article notes crooks typically cut contact just before the first payday, about a month after the first package ships - leaving the recruited resident holding the shipping records when the stolen-card purchases are traced.

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Fraud & Scams
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