Describe the basic elements of a "reshipper scheme."
What will be an ideal response?
Scam artists lure unsuspecting job seekers into reshipping schemes, transforming these citizens into "mules" who unwittingly help their "employers" commit international crime.
Victims are attracted to the scheme through ads posted on popular employment Web sites seeking "correspondence managers," "freightforwarding coordinators," or other respectable-sounding titles and are guaranteed to earn money by working from home.
After applicants are informed they have been hired—and nearly everyone who applies is hired—they begin receiving parcels at home with instructions on how to forward this merchandise to the company's home office abroad. The reshippers are compensated well, with one correspondence manager earning $24 for every package he reshipped. Thus, employee complaints, at this stage, are few. What employees do not know, however, is that the products they are reshipping are actually goods ordered online, purchased with fraudulent credit cards and sent overseas to be sold on the black market, or that they (the mules) have become part of a high-end fencing operation that converts stolen personal and financial data into tangible goods and cash.
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Which of the following is related to the right to protection?
A. may be fearful of offender and/or offender’s friends and family B. automated notification systems C. ability to submit victim impact statements D. right to be treated with dignity and respect
After arrest, and before the charging decision, and offender is ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The United States has a dual court system consisting of:
A. district and superior courts. B. trial and appellate courts. C. criminal and civil courts. D. state and federal courts.