Of all the industries I have worked in freight forwarding attracted the most illicit activity.
Freight forward generally involves shipping items between countries.
When you ship between countries, you need valid addresses within each country to receive those items.
Proving you are a real human with a unique identity always seem to go back to the address.
Every form of validation from opening credit cards to opening businesses relies on them sending something to an address so you can verify it is you and you “live” in a specific country.
In freight forwarding you are simply renting an address. If you are doing something illegal and you want to stay anonymous, it is perfect for you.
Think of all the havoc you can run.
We had all kinds of people use our addresses to get around U.S. sanctions, start spam telecom companies, you name it.
Our freight forwarding company address has to be regulated and work with customs and these sketchy businesses can just build on top of that.