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Dubose Brothers Charged in USPS, UPS Scam
PHILADELPHIA – Three brothers, Zumar Dubose, age 32, of Atlantic City, NJ; Abdush Dubose, age 34, of Boynton Beach, FL; and Kariem Dubose, age 40, of Philadelphia, PA, have been charged in a multi-district scheme to defraud the United States Postal Service (USPS), United Parcel Service (UPS), and Citizens Bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to a Superseding Indictment, the defendants submitted over 1,200 fraudulent insured-parcel claims with USPS and UPS between October 2018 and April 2020, and received almost $300,000 in ill-gotten gains. As part of the scheme, the Dubose brothers sent parcels to themselves using insured USPS postage and UPS tracking labels.
The brothers then filed fraudulent claims with USPS and UPS, claiming that these parcels were lost or damaged in transit, and attached sham proofs of value. To carry out their scheme, the defendants used numerous e-mails, addresses and postboxes, bank accounts and bank cards, fake individual names, and fictitious corporations, including “Urmajesty Banktruckfit Solutions,” “Miworld Three Incorporated,” and “4 Entertainment Corporation,” which were incorporated in the State of New Jersey, and “Seeds of Beauty Incorporated,” which was incorporated in the State of Florida.
The claim checks that the brothers received as part of this fraud scheme were deposited into Citizens Bank accounts opened in the names of these fake companies through ATMs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. When USPS and UPS refused to issue or deliver some of the fraudulently-obtained claim checks, and when Citizens Bank placed a hold on a bank account that was used to deposit the fraud proceeds, the Dubose brothers were undeterred.
The brothers repeatedly contacted USPS and UPS using fake names; defendant Zumar Dubose even filed lawsuits against UPS in various counties in New Jersey, using fake plaintiff names and falsely claiming that UPS did not pay him funds that he was owed. The defendants also filed a lawsuit against Citizens Bank, again pretending to be a different individual, in an effort to obtain the funds from their fraud scheme.
“These three brothers were allegedly brazen in their efforts to defraud businesses and the United States government via the postal services,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. “According to the Superseding Indictment, it wasn’t enough simply to perpetrate a direct fraud by lying about insured parcels – when the companies suspected something wasn’t right, the defendants turned around and had the nerve to file lawsuits against the victim companies. We will vigorously investigate and prosecute this type of unabashed fraud.”
“Many people might be surprised to learn that the Post Office and United Parcel Service often work together moving millions of parcels and mail. Today however, I have the unfortunate role of announcing that they were victimized together,” said Damon Wood, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the Postal Inspection Service. “The brothers Dubose devised an elaborate scheme to take advantage of the Post Office’s and UPS’s parcel insurance. Setting up fake email addresses, sending empty parcels, and filing bogus lawsuits, were among the tactics that demonstrate the lengths to which these brothers went to steel money from a private company and a government agency.”
The brothers’ scheme has been brought to an end, thanks to the detailed investigation of Inspectors from the Postal Inspection Service and by agents of Post Office Inspector General. The brothers behind the scheme have been charged, and the community can rest a little easier knowing that these brazen fraudsters will face justice.
Key Facts
- State: Pennsylvania
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes|Crime in PA
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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