UPS Deliveryman's Sidekick Side Business

Given the curious FedEx package sorting on the street, this story is an interesting coincidence. WABC 7 reports that a UPS delivery man was apprehended due to his involvement in a scheme involving stolen credits, UPS packages, and Sidekick cell phones. It's believed that a UPS deliveryman is behind a plan where Sidekicks would be ordered with stolen credit card numbers, and then the packages would be "intercepted in a series of pre-arranged visits with UPS drivers who were accomplices in the scheme." The drivers would allegedly be paid $50 per Sidekick!

WABC 7 says that one driver is in custody; the police found him when he was waiting to sell the phones to the kingpin. And it seems that UPS internal security may have tipped off the police. Wild!

And remember the story about the Sidekick that was stolen, and the owner's friend got in touch with the people who stole it or bought it from thief?

Photograph of UPS Truck by Triborough on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in News on February 17, 2007 10:10 AM

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gabriella

UPS is SO evil.

I had a bunch of computer software mailed to me that never arrived. A tenant in my building unknowingly signed for my box while accepting his own delivery. Now all UPS will do is tell me that it was signed for and it's our of their hands. I'm sure my stuff is either in the driver's collection or in a pile of unclaimed packages that no one can be bothered to look through in some warehouse. Needless to say, I will avoid using their "services" at any cost.

sidearm7

what can brown do for you?

thieves

I ordered a laptop from Amazon and UPS delievered an open box full of packing materials but no computer. Neither Amazon nor UPS seemed very concerned. Amazon shipped another computer the next day.

kzm

Whenever I return a cell phone via UPS the person behind the counter always asks, "Is it a Sidekick?" or "Is it a Razr?"

I figured it was to give them a heads up for boosting it.