Orlando local Jawanza Sparks didn’t know she’d done anything wrong. But one sunny day, local police made a seemingly out-of-the-blue visit to her Florida home. The reason? A package Sparks sent for her new stay-at-home job was actually part of an alleged fraud scheme.
According to Orlando’s News 6, this scary situation began a few weeks prior when Sparks was browsing for convenient work-from-home opportunities. She eventually found a post for a “package inspector” from a Utah-based business called Freight Steward. Besides the flexibility of remote work, the pay expectations caught Sparks’s eye: $4,300 per month with potential $20 bonuses for packages sent within three hours of receipt.
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Sparks didn’t see anything suspicious on the Indeed job listing. As she told News 6 investigators, “It felt so legit. I was just like, okay, yes, I finally got a job now.”
After landing the job, Sparks sent personal details then completed training courses that walked her through her responsibilities, which revolved around opening, checking and reshipping products…