By Christy Bieber, Money Wise | Work-from-home jobs can provide valuable income for people who are unable to work a traditional job. For Mildred Bedar, a Houston resident, her work-at-home position helped her pay the bills, until the company disappeared without sending her a paycheck. Bedar said she was hired to inspect shipments from Amazon, repackage them, and send the products to their final destination. She was supposed to be paid $2,900 for her work, with a bonus of $20 for every package that she handled.
What she was ultimately paid, however, was nothing, putting her at serious risk of losing her home. Here’s how she became a victim of a work-from-home scam.
How the work-from-home scam worked
Bedar said she worked for the company that hired her for months, only to have the business vanish before her scheduled payday, leaving her in a bind.
“I’ll be homeless if I don’t get that money,” Bedar told Fox 26 Houston. “I’m a 68-year-old woman with her service dog out on the street or her car is not something I would think about.”
It’s unlikely that Amazon shipping will come, however, because the Postal Service and the Better Business Bureau believe that Bedar had inadvertently been duped into a “reshipping scam.” These scams involve products acquired illegally and are then laundered through multiple shipping steps to hide their origin.
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WOW!!! If this wasn’t so detailed, it could grab you – or an older relative!
COMBO received this “letter” – we thought we’d share it – PLEASE DON’T take “Vice Chairman Harrisburg (Harrisburg???) up on “his” offer!!! (Please note all the grammatical errors, etc.)
Message from Vice Chairman Harrisburg
Harrisburg International Airport Pennsylvania
One Terminal Drive, Middle town, PA 17057, Pennsylvania USA
Your Abandoned Package For Delivery
I have very vital information to give to you, but first I must have your trust before I review it to you because it may affect my job,so I need somebody that I can trust for me to be able to review the secret to you.
I am Mr. William Leonard, head of luggage/baggage storage facilities (Operations, Maintenance, Transportation) here at the Harrisburg International Airport, Pennsylvania USA. During my recent withheld package routine check at the Airport Storage Vault, I discovered an abandoned shipment from a Diplomat from London and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing approximately 110kg. The consignment was abandoned because the Contents of the consignment was not properly declared by the consignee as “MONEY” rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid interrogation and also the inability of the diplomat to pay for the United States Non Inspection Charges which is $4,700 USD. On my assumption the consignment is still left in our Storage House here at the Harrisburg International Airport Pennsylvania till date. The details of the consignment including your name, your email address and the official documents from the United Nations office in Geneva are tagged on the Trunk.
However, to enable me confirm if you are the actual recipient of this consignment as the assistant director of the Inspection Unit, I will advise you provide your current Phone Number and Full Address, to enable me cross check if it corresponds with the address on the official documents including the name of nearest Airport around your city. Please note that this consignment is supposed to have been returned to the United States Treasury Department as unclaimed delivery due to the delays in concluding the clearance processes so as a result of this, I will not be able to receive your details on my official email account. So in order to enable me to cross check your details, I will advise you to send the required details to my private email address for quick processing and response. Once I confirm you as the actual recipient of the trunk box, I can get everything concluded within 48 hours upon your acceptance and proceed to your address for delivery.
Lastly, be informed that the reason I have taken it upon myself to contact you personally about this abandoned consignment is because I want us to transact this business and share the money 70% for you and 30% for me since the consignment has not yet been returned to the United States Treasury Department after being abandoned by the diplomat so immediately the confirmation is made, I will go ahead and pay for the United States Non Inspection Fee of $4,700 dollars and arrange for the box to be delivered to your doorstep Or I can bring it by myself to avoid any more trouble but you have to assure me of my 30% share.
I wait to hear from you urgently if you are still alive and I will appreciate it if we can keep this deal confidential. Please get back to me via my private Email:( williamleonard46@aol.com ) for further directives.
Thanks,
William Leonard.
VICE CHAIRMAN HARRISBURG,
(Operations,Maintenance,Transportation)
Harrisburg International Airport Pennsylvania
One Terminal Drive, Middle town.
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