The scammer sent a package to be forwarded to him, what now?
Scammers are not only involved with fraud but also with other forms of crime, notably credit card fraud. Many scammers will have packages of goods purchased with stolen credit cards, sent to a victim and ask the victim to forward them to either the scammer or an accomplice. This scam is done for two reasons. Firstly the activities of the criminals have damaged the good name of many of the countries they operate from, making many businesses wary of sending goods to those countries, thus they seek an innocent intermediary to whom the goods will be sent. Secondly the victim in this case acts as a form of protection for the scammer in that the police will arrest the victim for credit card fraud and not worry too much about chasing the real criminal. If you are asked to do this by a scammer and receive a package, do not open it or otherwise tamper with the contents but take it straight to the police with a printout of your e-mail exchanges with the scammer and explain to them what has happe
