Job offer scams and USP/FedEx

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Master Baiter Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 199

I noticed something on my shipping lables lately. All of them are sent on accounts and I have yet to see one paid with cash or credit card.

I suspect the sender is an employee somewhere legit and sending these fake checks on his boss's dime.

Ethics of baiting these morons when you suspect they use the innocent boss's dime to send them? Hmmm.

Or am I worried about little things?

Master Baiter Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 123 Location: UK

If you think about that, then you have to worry that if it were paid by credit card, that would probably be stolen, and if it were cash the money would most likely have come from another victim...

You'll end up tying yourself in knots over this! Just remember your duty; The lad needs to feel pain.

Master Baiter Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 170

And if you're lucky, the person pinching the boss' shipping labels will get caught and canned.....

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:36 am

Might be worth a talk with the accounts department afor the shipping company ?

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:30 am

Having managed the ship/rec dept for my company for a bit, I can tell you that there are some simple tricks to get free shipping from fedex, but I dont want to post in an open forum and educate a passing lad. (or cross that boundary into illegal activity!)

@harrya - you could try calling fedex and explaining what you think is fraudulent use of an account number. I have never tried it, but I do know that this (fraudulent use of valid and/or invalid account numbers) costs fedex a significant amount of money every year and if you get the right manager on the phone, you might find a new way to impede the lad's operations! The trick will be getting someone to answer the phone who gives a crap! Mad

@mike - are the labels hand-written? or printed? one of my "free" tricks requires hand-written labels.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:06 pm

Well in that case your in the best position to nail them. My fingers are in my ears. I'm sure the carrier would have a fraud department that you submit info to.
However and I'm not being cynical (I would never be) all large organisations know it's happening and just charge it to the end user.

So next time you go to xyz-mart just remember youv'e already bought a 59" plasma TV, It's just that the looser next do has it and he never paid a cent

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:21 pm

harrya wrote:

all large organisations know it's happening and just charge it to the end user.

Amen Brother!

Master Baiter Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 199

They are mostly hand written.

The account numbers are covered on my copy though so I would have a hard time passing it to a investigator.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:47 pm

Slap the mugu into giving you the accnt #. There used to be a thread here to report those numbers to

Master Baiter Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 199

@firepilot I would but I don't kwow which mugu sent what.... they never include email or contact info in the shipment...

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