USACA Logistics Reports & Reviews

USACA Logistics Reports & Reviews (1)

Scammer's phone (404) 382-0777
Scammer's website usacalogistics.com
Scammer's address 191 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Type of a scam Employment
Initial means of contact Email

suspicious re-shipping business

I was searching for employment in software, so registered my resume on few job sites.
My contact details were picked up by few other (non-technical) job sites where I have not registered and offered jobs of various types. One such site is USACA Logistics.
I received an email from them, offering a petty job, Quality Control Inspector' of 'work from remote' type, with an attractive salary along with bonus. For information, salary $3200/- per month, and bonus of various types ($1 for just login every day, $25 for reshipping of one package, additional $5 for same day delivery, $75 if package is to be picked up as well, $300 for birth day etc.., and reimbursement of costs involved towards reshipping costs. Of course, there was a mention about penalty clauses for late delivery/ missed packages/ damages if occur in the hands of the re-shipper.
So, I responded, one person by name Edward came into contact, spoke to me very briefly, confirmed the job and emailed an Employment Agreement for me to sign and submit. Then he asked for my identification. I completed these formalities.
After 1, 2 days he introduced another (realistic or fictitious) person, Michael, to me as my supervisor/ boss. We exchanged few emails. I received one link which upon clicking, installed a simple application which is the action point for all communications, tasks, notifications.

To understand their business as a whole and my role in it, I asked for the details of workflow /the complete supply chain in shipping etc.., by phone and email, which were not answered. As per my question about the payment /Income tax details, he sent me a document which is a W4.
To find the answers myself, I visited the URL which they provided, and read the business content and it seemed genuine. The description says that the company assists prospective purchasers, belonging to any location in the world, buy costly or rarely available items from any US based shops and get their packages with fabulous rewards in the form of sales discounts/ saving on the sales tax/ shipping costs. To benefit the customers, the method explained was to utilize a tax-free zone, which is Delaware and route every delivery through that location.
This application is the main point for all communications/ action points etc.., They don’t respond to the usual phone calls and emails, unless the subject is related to promote the assigned task further to completion.
After a day of creation of my profile and login details, they started sending the packages. My job was to open the package(s), examine the contents for any damage/ defects, remove any billing labels/ tags/ pricing information and repack them. After conveying the repacking stage, by way of pressing a button in the application, they used to take time for several hours and provide me with shipping labels, only after 5.00 pm (for some unknown reason), which used to put unnecessary pressure on me to complete the 'forwarding task' and earn extra bonus for ‘same day shipping’. I have complied all such tasks, my dashboard reflected the bonus earned with every completion.
I might have received about 15 packages in all during the period of 20 days, through FedEx/ UPS/ USPS and after inspection I have forwarded to their destinations after receiving the pre-billed shipping labels. In all transactions, the origin as well as the destination happened to be local, within USA.
With completion of every task, unrealistic amounts as bonus was awarded and the same was displayed in the dashboard of the application. In all cases, the items in the package were lesser value than the bonus awarded to me. This is where I grew more suspicious about the job. Further I never observed any reference to the tax-free location, Delaware, in my experience. This also raised another question.
Initially, the packages used to arrive bearing my name, subsequently they were using the names of persons unknown to me and addressed to my residence. This is another doubt, why different names.
Once I was asked to pick up a package personally from a UPS location nearby. I went there, and as instructed displayed a notary document to collect the package. The person at the desk refused to honor the document. This increased my doubts about the legality of the business operation of the company. Immediately, I communicated the incident to Edward and sought clarification, which was ignored.
With a suspicious mind, I searched on the internet about reshipping business, and came to know of few fraudulent organizers who conduct illegal business of various types. At this time, I decided to stop my involvement further with them.
So, I communicated to Edward and demanded to prove the genuineness of his business and declared my intention not to work with him anymore unless he proved the point. As expected, there was no reply from him, no packages either. That put a full stop for the present employment. I waited for any communication wrt the first payment which never came through. Meanwhile they have disabled my login from the application. So, it cannot be used or shown to anyone. However, I have few evidences saved at few occasions.

Reasons For The Complaint:

Because of the experience/ doubts mentioned above, I lost hope the payment for my service. At the same time, I have developed a concern about the possible abuse of my personal data and the identification document submitted, to create fake credit cards/ bank accounts etc..., I am not sure what else.

Next, I continue to receive such job offering emails, suggesting the existence of many such operators across the country, invisible to the public but potential skammers.

Last but not least, I felt it is my social responsibility to let others know about such illegal business organizers so that they don't become cheated.

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