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BBB serving Greater Kentucky and South Central Indiana warns of a reshipping employment scam targeting individuals searching for work-from-home opportunities. Listings from an organization calling itself Prime Path LLC and claiming to be a logistics company located in Louisville, KY have appeared on sites such as Indeed.com. The listings advertise work-from-home job positions that involve receiving and reshipping packages. Multiple individuals from across the United States have reported to BBB that after accepting a position with Prime Path LLC, they never received payment from the company.
BBB Arkansas has also seen an influx of reshipping scam reports; these reports name a business called Prime Pack Logistics. More information on these instances and those reported in Louisville can be found here: https://www.bbb.org/article/warnings/31235-bbb-warns-job-seekers-to-use-caution-when-looking-for-work-from-home-positions
In many cases, reshipping scams involve purchases made using stolen credit cards. Job applicants are often unaware that once accepting a “position,” they are assisting in reshipping stolen merchandise, and they will never receive a paycheck for their work. Additionally, there is the potential for job applicants to become victims of identity theft since they submit personal information such as social security numbers under the guise of completing new hire paperwork.
It is important to remember that there are no legitimate work opportunities that involve receiving packages and shipping them to a new address from your home. There are steps you can take to protect yourself from a reshipping employment scam:
- If you come across a reshipping job listing (also sometimes listed as “package handler” or “package inspector”), report the suspected scam to the United States Postal Inspection Service (www.uspis.gov) and to BBB’s Scam Tracker (https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker).
- If the job listing appears on a third-party employment site such as Indeed.comor Monster.com, report the listing as a scam to the site.
- Do not accept packages at your home address from people you do not know.
- Do not accept phone calls or respond to messages from people wanting you to reship their mail.
ABOUT BBB: For more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau has been helping people find businesses, brands and charities they can trust. The International Association of Better Business Bureaus is the umbrella organization for the local, independent BBBs in the United States, Canada and Mexico. BBB's Louisville and Lexington offices merged in 2022 to form BBB Serving Greater Kentucky and South Central Indiana, which serves 108 counties in Kentucky and 10 counties in Southern Indiana.