Quinn Reitz said her company, Nursing Queen, ships items across the country daily. But recently, she has noticed a trend after she got an online purchase with a shipping address in Doral.
“It was just for one dress and the customer opened a chargeback which means they disputed it on their credit card, so it was a stolen credit card,” Reitz said.
She said she ran into the same issue again.
“I got another fraudulent order from Doral, Florida for $260. We shipped it and a chargeback was opened,” Reitz said.
Reitz quickly discovered she isn’t the only online seller running into issues with shipments headed to Doral.
Other sellers are complaining in online forums. One person wrote they received about 20 fraudulent orders and “all of them were shipped to Doral.” Another person stated “Search ‘Doral’ in this group. Dozens of us have got the same fraudulent order. Cancel Immediately.”
NBC 6 Responds wanted to know what was behind these fraudulent shipments, so we went to the shipping addresses from Quinn’s orders and they took us to several freight forwarding companies in Doral.
Workers at those companies didn’t want to talk on camera, but told us they are also victims.
“The freight forwarder often becomes an unwilling participant,” Doral Police spokesperson Rey Valdes said.
Valdes says because of the city’s proximity to the airport, it is a hub for freight forwarding companies and scammers are targeting them.
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