Monday, July 12, 2010

Are you unknowingly aiding terrorism??

You've all seen the online ads...work from home...get rich quick. Sounds too good to be true, right?? um, yes...that's because it likely is. Criminals overseas continue to target Oklahomans online. You think you're working from home, but what you don't know is you could be unknowingly helping terrorists. A disabled man from Guthrie thought he was working as a shipping clerk...re-shipping merchandise to Americans overseas.. but really he was sending stolen merchandise to scam artists in Nigeria. In his case...the crooks posted a bogus ad online...our victim then responded to the ad. Once they got his personal information...they used a stolen credit card to order cell phones...those cell phones were then shipped to our victim's home address in Oklahoma...where he repackaged and tried to re-ship the merchandise to West Africa. Here's the scary part...the cell phone's SIM card can be used as the trigger mechanism in IED bombs used by terrorists in Africa and possibly the Middle East. U.S. Postal Inspectors warn about the scheme on their webpage...

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