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A crafty crook scammed UPS by filling out a change of address for their Atlanta headquarters — resulting in thousands of pieces of mail, some with checks or valuables, being delivered right to his door, authorities say.
Chicago resident Dushaun Spruce, 24, was spotted depositing nearly $60,000 in UPS checks into his bank account in late January, according to newly unsealed court documents and the Chicago Tribune.
The scheme began in October 2017, when Spruce submitted a written change-of-address form to the US Postal Service requesting that the UPS headquarters’ address be changed to Spruce’s tiny one-bedroom apartment, according to an affidavit.
At first, Spruce’s initials were on the signature line, but they were scratched out and replaced with “UPS,” the document alleges.
For nearly three months, so much mail was delivered daily to Spruce’s pad that the carrier had to place it all in a tub and leave it at the door, authorities say.
It wasn’t until January that a UPS security coordinator raised the alarm. It was later learned that among the pieces of mail shipped were five corporate American Express cards in various UPS employee names.
Inspectors interrogated the carrier delivering mail to Spruce’s address, and he said “voluminous” amounts had been taken there for months.
The carrier, who had sometimes handed Spruce mail, identified him in a picture as the person the mail was being delivered to.
Postal inspectors went to the building and retrieved “several thousand” pieces of first-class and registered mail addressed to UPS. Some included the personal information of UPS employees, and others were letters to the CEO, business checks or invoices.
The same day, Spruce allegedly tried to deposit 10 checks addressed to UPS and amounting to $58,000 at First Third Bank.
Though he acknowledges that authorities served him a search warrant and seized mail, checkbooks and bank records from his apartment in January, Spruce denies any wrongdoing.
He has not been criminally charged. In a brief conversation with the Tribune, he hinted that mail had been delivered to his place as a mix-up that wasn’t his fault.
Spruce has no felony convictions but was arrested twice on minor drug charges and allegations of bank fraud a year before his alleged UPS scam.
According to his Facebook, he’s held a slew of odd jobs including restaurant dishwasher, furniture mover, car wash attendant, “business coordinator” and “former everything at White Castle.”
Law enforcement sources told the Tribune that the investigation is ongoing.
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