# Reshipping scam

> A reshipping scam (or postal-forwarding scam) hires you for a fake 'logistics coordinator' or 'quality control' role in which you receive packages at home, repackage them, and forward them to another address, often overseas. The goods were purchased with stolen credit cards, so you become the traceable middle of a theft - and the promised pay usually never arrives.

Source: https://realjobcheck.com/glossary/reshipping-scam/  
Updated: 2026-06-02 - Real Job Check Trust and Safety Research Team

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## What it is

A reshipping scam is the physical-goods version of money laundering. Instead of moving stolen money, you move stolen merchandise. Criminals buy electronics and other resellable goods with stolen card numbers, ship them to your home, and have you forward them to a drop address, breaking the trail between the theft and the destination. You are the link investigators can find.

## How it reaches you

The role is advertised as a "logistics coordinator," "package processing agent," "quality control inspector," or "shipping manager," remote and undemanding. You may be asked to set up accounts with shipping carriers or to use prepaid labels they send. Pay is promised after a probationary period that, conveniently, ends just before payday.

## The tell

Any home-based job whose core duty is receiving packages and reshipping them elsewhere, especially overseas, using labels or accounts the "employer" provides. Legitimate logistics companies use their own facilities and staff, not strangers' living rooms.

## What to do

Do not accept, and do not forward any packages. If you already have, stop, keep records, and report to the [FTC](https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/), the FBI's [IC3](https://www.ic3.gov/), and the carrier. The money-handling equivalent of this scheme is the [money mule](/glossary/money-mule/) role. To vet any suspicious posting, use the [free checker](/#check).