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Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed

Posted by timothy on from the shady-shipping-containers-make-cool-houses dept.

Dynamoo writes "Ever wondered how criminals can spirit away the products they buy with stolen credit cards? The answer is that they use surprisingly sophisticated but very shady reshipping centers to launder the goods on their way to Eastern Europe. The bad guys make the money, but it's the mules doing the reshipping who will eventually get caught."

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  1. Hmm... by wren337 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Set up in a foreclosed house somewhere
    2) Answer ad on Craigslist for reshipping job
    3) Keep merchandise, send out packages weighted with bricks
    4) Disappear before 1st package arrives in Russia
    5) Profit???