- “Parcel mules” participate in a scam where they receive and send illegal packages.
- The reshipping scam is often disguised as employment, experts told Insider.
- Consider the work required and how much it pays to assess the validity of employment offers.
It was the leaf blowers that sounded the alarms.
Sure, the company email address with a misspelling was odd. And the promise of a $2,400-a-month base salary for a job that didn’t require much work sounded a little too good to be true.
But Stephen, who’s based in Louisiana and in his 30s but asked to keep his last name anonymous for privacy reasons, was in the thick of a long job search, having been out of work for about a year and a half. And Bimco Ship, the company he’d signed up to work for in March after it reached…
