A promising part-time job as a parcel recipient attracts with a home office and good working conditions. For €25 per hour you have to receive and forward packages. What is not mentioned: If you accept the job, you may be involved in order fraud and be liable to prosecution!

It seems tempting, a job that can be done from the comfort of your own home. All you need is a phone, a laptop, and a little extra space for storing and shipping packages. For this job, which requires no prior knowledge, you are promised €25 per hour - and the alleged employers also offer extra bonuses.

The catch? If you accept such a job offer, you may be committing a criminal offense! This scam is a type of part-time job fraud. Criminals exploit applicants to send them stolen packages through order fraud.

Instead of a job, an advert is waiting

The website europost-eu.biz lures people with fake jobs. Instead of good additional income, however, an advertisement follows. (Screenshot: Watchlist Internet)
The website europost-eu.biz lures people with fake jobs. Instead of good additional income, however, an advertisement follows. (Screenshot: Watchlist Internet)

Lured by a deceptively professional website, the criminals lure people looking for a job into the part-time job trap. The unwitting applicants are supposed to receive packages and forward them to the alleged employers. What those affected don't know: The packages are goods stolen classified ads or ! The criminals often purchase these goods with stolen credit cards and use the unsuspecting applicants' home address as the delivery address. This means that the trail does not lead to the criminals, but rather to the victims of the job fraud. This makes it difficult for the police to find out who is really behind the order fraud. For those affected, their dream job quickly turns into a nightmare.

The applicants usually don't even know that their part-time job is making them liable to prosecution. It's only when the police show up at the door that they realize you were part of a scam. However, by then it is often already too late, because by forwarding the stolen packages, those affected have become complicit.

What is part-time job fraud?

It is often not so easy to find out whether it is part-time job fraud (also known as a fake job). In some cases, the criminals just want to get the victims' personal information or identification documents. But in other cases, applicants have to perform real activities, such as receiving packages, transferring money, or registering bank accounts. However, these activities are involved in illegal activities! Behind the job offers that seem serious, there is actually a position as a fraud assistant.

The criminals often lure people with fake company appearances that are designed down to the last detail and with employment contracts that appear deceptively real. The alleged company Europost-eu.biz also illegally uses the Austrian Post logo to attract applicants. In fact, europost-eu.biz has nothing to do with the Austrian Post AG. This is because it processes its parcels centrally, not from various private households.  

Are you affected? This is what needs to be done now

If you have found a job advertisement from europost-biz.eu, we advise you to ignore it. If you found the job via a job portal, you can report the fraud to the job portal to have the job advertisement removed.

Have you contacted the criminals? We advise you to break off contact immediately and not to provide any further data to the criminals. Once you have provided your credit card details, it may make sense to closely monitor your account statements over the next few weeks for unauthorized debits.

If you have already signed the employment contract and receive packages, we advise you to contact the police . Describe your situation and discuss how to proceed.

Source: Watchlist Internet

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