Is the following address used for scams and frauds?
11407 SW Amu St.
Suite # XXXXX
Tualatin, OR 97062
USA
No, this is one of the warehouses used by Shipito.
Shipito warehouse: 11407 SW Amu St., Suite # XXXXX, Tualatin, OR 97062, USA
What is Shipito (Eastbiz Corp.)?
Shipito (Eastbiz Corp.) is a US package forwarding company (also known as a freight forwarder, a mail forwarder or a shipping forwarder) allowing to overcome geographical shipping restrictions and ship online purchases to
- Alaska, Hawaii,
- U.S. Protectorates and Insular areas (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, or Federated States of Micronesia),
- APO, FPO, and DPO Addresses,
- DOS Addresses,
- other countries including but not limited to Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, India, Russia, Kuwait, Virgin Islands, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia, Bahrain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, the Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan,…
Shipito is one of the largest freight forwarders. It has tens of thousands of customers from all over the world. Shipito Facebook page has more than 5’000 likes:
Can the “11407 SW Amu St., Tualatin, OR 97062, USA” address be used for scams and frauds?
Yes it can be used for legit as well as illegal activities like ANY other address. BUT I and many of my friends use it for making legit purchases in US online shops that don’t ship overseas. Also even US individuals and US companies use Shipito package/parcel forwarding service for shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, or Federated States of Micronesia, APO, DPO and FPO addresses.
Information for online retailers about Shipito
Shipito and victims of stolen credit cards
If you’re a store owner who shipped product to 11407 SW Amu St., Tualatin, OR 97062, USA and got a chargeback, contact Shipito immediately if you are a victim of credit card fraud. If they find that a stolen credit card was used, they immediately send packages back to you. Shipito has zero tolerance policy. Fraud accounts are immediately canceled.
Shipito and international sales
Shipito offers a program where they can guarantee all sales to online retailers if they are purchased directly by Shipito. This allows online retailers not to lose international sales, while Shipito takes the risk of accepting international payments.
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Most stolen credit card orders are sent to freight forwarders to send to other countries.
Shipito requires its customers to provide 2 valid IDs, so it is much safer to send orders to Shipito than to most freight forwarders that do not have any customer validation.
Well, someone stole my credit card and sent $4,000 worth of items out of the country using Shipito, so obviously they aren’t that reilable.
Shipito helps stores to fight fraud. They force users to provide 2 IDs. Many other shipping forwarders don’t require any IDs. But of course there is no 100% guarantee.
How long did it take you to find out that $4,000 were stolen?
Have the store contacted Shipito? What was the result?
Also do you use different credit cards for online transactions and offline transactions? Do you use credit cards with small limits for small transactions? Do you check online stores before making any purchases? Do you replace your credit cards once or twice a year? Do you get text messages (SMS) for all transactions over $100-500?
No one should have to do any of those things you mentioned. His credit card probably was never used online for anything, and it still gets compromised and used online. There is a good reason companies do not ship overseas. Fraud. If they knew you were a reshipping company, retailers would not send to you either. You are facilitating fraud. Two IDs – big deal – if they can get credit card info, they can certainly counterfeit IDs. Are you some kind of expert in identifying counterfeit IDs from a scanned image, or do you physically handle these IDs? Just because he did not respond does not make his claim false, he probably did not wait around to see your response.
Only Russia alone has hundreds of thousands of customers who get their purchases reshipped via freight forwarding companies like Shipito. And even if you don’t like customers from Russia there are customers from different countries of the world from Australia and Canada to India and Brazil. Even customers from the U.S. territories, Alaska are forced to use freight forwarders sometimes. Plus many online stores do not offer shipping via USPS, so U.S. citizens with APO, FPO, DPO addresses use freight forwarders to reship their online purchases too.
More and more stores start shipping to freight forwarders intentionally. And even those who didn’t ship to such locations in the past (like Timberland, Levi’s) do it right now intentionally. If you are a seller who prefers to stay away from customers overseas, this is your choice. I understand it considering the risks involved.
I do not work for Shipito (I’m a customer of theirs who consolidated a couple of hundreds of packages from many U.S. online stores), so I can’t tell you whether they have experts to analyze images of counterfeit documents or not. However their limits and/or the notary signed 1583 form will stop many fraudsters.
Since you haven’t replied to my questions, it is more likely that your accusations were false. Anyway I posted some tips on preventing credit/debit card frauds. They are very useful for many customers.
My credit card was hacked into over the internet through a company and I’m still in dispute with it. This is the address my credit card company gave me that the merchandise was sent to. So tell me, how do they require to 2 proper ID’s??? This is BULL!!!!!
Contact Shipito so they can put the account used for the scam on hold.
2 IDs are required to verify your account. But it doesn’t give a 100% guarantee that their address won’t be used for scams. Someone may hijack ID and password to get a package instead of the real owner.
Here are some fraud prevention tips for those who make purchases online via debit or credit cards
http://realbargain.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/how-you-can-prevent-debit-and-credit-card-fraud/
You may also consider getting AmEx card. At least my friends highly recommended it to me after having their money returned very quickly.
I’m totally lost. I just don’t understand whether to deliver our orders to 11407 SW Amu Street or not.
What warehouse should I use: Tualatin, Torrance or Hawthorne?
Please see the following:
Shipito warehouses, their benefits and limitations
You can call Eastbiz Corporation (310) 212-7134 and ask whether the client is new or not. It should be pretty safe to send packages to old clients.
Is it necessary to call Eastbiz to find out whether the client is new or not? How risky it is to ship to new clients of freight forwarders?