[Music] work at home scams have been around for decades it used to be that crook advertised for these scams and newspapers for posted signs on telephone poles make money stuffing envelopes at home earn hundreds of dollars a week from the comfort of your living room but now even the crooks have gone high-tech they post these bogus offers on websites the newest wrinkle to the scam is called reshipping fraud scam a simple crook steal credit card numbers order expensive stuff on the net and then have it shipped to their victims the victim receives the merchandise and then we ship it to the crook thinking they're providing a legitimate service what they don't tell you is that it can also make you an accomplice to the crime coming home on protective Danielson with a Morgan County Sheriff's Office are you captain husband he's not here usually something rose I have a warrant for your arrest grant that larceny and I need you to step outside anyway I don't understand to solve announcement wait wait what are you making a mistake this kind of work at home scam is brand new most local cops haven't run up against it yet when it became obvious that this was only part of a much larger mail fraud they called us and now I know you told your story let's start against again I mean things can get pretty boring at home so I just went online and found this website had all these ads on there for people who wanted to work from home if they were looking for people to receive shipments and forward them on other people it's a normal and harmless [Music] counter that guy just showed and Ernie looking guy about like 20 army jacket Stefan is i canna wait around forever and one half points are you I don't know there's something up ahead an accident hang tight I gotta get around postal inspectors an emergency Allen is making a move I'm going to stall them move nice night huh you see that accident took me around haven't heard a good three blocks mmm yeah never seen you around here before I'm I'm just trying to be friendly I've all the friends I made an excuse me hold it I'm a personal expect to put your stuff down put your packages down now ma'am these are my packages i paid for 9,000 my bar down on the counter now free shipping is just the newest wrinkle in a line of scams that goes back nearly a century he has promised big money working part-time at home you can say a hundred bucks for materials practices at home and listen to ten dollars an ice-cream sticks some photographic instructions on how to make picture frames usually they deliver a little or nothing and then my personal favorite this is going to make a thousand bucks a month stuffing envelopes almost none of these work at home offers images these days the internet makes it even easier for these thieves to recruit new Vic and their ads out the millions using email or post them on jobseekers websites in some cases that really just after the type of personal information you're commonly required to give it a job application they can use this to steal your identity avoiding these frauds really isn't too difficult just follow these tips one closely examine the ad or offer it sounds too good to be true it probably is too don't fill out a job application or give other personal information to a company or business that isn't known to you three these suspicious of any offer that doesn't pay a regular salary or involves overseas companies there is no legitimate job receiving and forwarding packages for if you are in doubt check with your state attorney general's office or the local Better Business Bureau before accepting any employment offer and if you think you've been the victim of these scams you need to report it to your local United States Postal Inspector you can find one in your phone book or on our website usps com / Postal Inspector free shipping maybe the latest thing in fraud but old-fashioned common sense is the best medicine for prevention [Music] you [Music]