According to a Police media release, there has been a rise of job scams that specifically targets couriers.
The police want to alert the public about work frauds that target couriers.
Scammers will target couriers from various delivery systems in these situations. In these frauds, there are two sorts of variations:
Version A of scam
The fraudsters would make a request through the delivery mechanism in the first version.
After that, they’d contact the designated courier and ask for help obtaining gift cards from convenience stores. The fraudsters would ask the courier to scratch and expose the code behind the card while on their way to the location, and then email a photo of the code as proof of purchase. When the fraudster became uncontactable and did not pay for the gift cards, the courier would realize they had been duped.
Version B of scam
The fraudsters would mention a remittance agency as the location for the courier to pick up the delivery in the second variation.
They would then call the designated courier and suggest that they transfer a particular amount of money to an overseas account in exchange for an enticing tip of at least $100 each transaction. The couriers would only realize they had been duped when the fraudsters were no longer reachable and there was no one at the delivery site to pay for the transfer they had facilitated.