Recognize reshipping job scams in Philadelphia by the package instructions
Recognize a suspicious home-reshipping offer by the requested movement of goods and seek independent guidance before participating.
A supposed delivery employer offers work receiving packages at your home. After they arrive, you are told to remove the original records, repackage the goods and send them to another address. Examine those instructions before treating the arrangement as an ordinary delivery job.
This guide addresses reshipping job scams in Philadelphia through a national pattern described by the Federal Trade Commission. It is not a report of an EPIQ incident or a measure of local prevalence. It focuses on the offered package-handling arrangement, rather than a fake check followed by a demand to send money.
Check a home package forwarding job offer
The FTC warns about work-from-home offers that ask people to receive shipments, repackage them and forward them to a new address. Its December 2025 alert describes goods bought with stolen card or bank information, instructions to discard original packaging and receipts, and false claims of affiliation with familiar delivery brands.
Read the proposed work as a sequence. Where do the goods first arrive? What are you told to remove or replace? Where are they sent next? Keep the actual messages and shipping instructions together so you can describe that sequence accurately.
A job title such as quality control or delivery operations does not resolve those questions. Neither does a promised monthly payment. Check the package-handling arrangement even when the job title sounds familiar.
Read a fictional home-inspection offer
Suppose a fictional applicant receives an offer to inspect electronics at home. The sender says packages will arrive under different customer names. The applicant is instructed to discard the receipts, apply replacement labels and forward everything to addresses supplied through a chat account.
The applicant can identify the requested actions without guessing who purchased any particular item: receive goods at a personal address, remove the original records and forward the goods under new instructions. Those are the features to compare with the FTC warning.
This example does not establish that a real package is stolen or determine anyone's criminal liability. It is also not a description of every legitimate warehousing or forwarding business. It shows why a job seeker should not use a title, a label or a future pay promise as verification of this suspicious home-reshipping offer.
Pause participation and use independent sources
Do not make a test shipment to find out whether the claimed job will pay. Stop following the sender's instructions while seeking independent guidance about the offer. A reply from the same chat account cannot independently establish that the sender represents the company whose name is being used.
The guide to identifying the employer behind a delivery brand addresses the separate company-identity question. Naming a real company does not prove that the person directing packages is authorized to act for it.
The FTC recommends researching the named employer and talking through the offer with someone you trust. Its alert directs reports to the FTC and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Use the official reporting destinations rather than links supplied by the suspected sender.
If packages or personal information are already involved
If goods have arrived, retain the messages and tracking information and ask the Postal Inspection Service how to proceed with the actual circumstances. Do not improvise by forwarding, returning or discarding goods according to another unverified instruction from the sender.
Keep shipping labels and other people's information out of public posts. You can describe the arrangement privately through the appropriate reporting channel without publishing recipient details to ask strangers whether the job looks real.
If you supplied identity or bank information, the FTC alert points to IdentityTheft.gov for protective steps. Use its current guidance for the information actually shared. This article cannot determine whether identity theft occurred or guarantee that a shipment or disclosure can be reversed.
Restart the search from a verified application route
Keep the suspicious shipping arrangement separate from your active job applications. If you continue looking for delivery work, identify a current role and its genuine application route before submitting more personal information.
The guide to preparing an accurate delivery-driver application covers that submission task. It does not validate a sender's package instructions or prove that an offer is genuine.
The EPIQ delivery-job guides cover surrounding role questions. For a home-reshipping offer, preserve what the sender actually asked you to do and seek appropriate independent help before allowing an employment claim to move goods through your home.