They harvest the information from trucking schools, acting as if they are recruiters. The schools give them the info and they call the recent grads, boiler room style from payphones etc. telling the recent grads they have a job offer for such n such but you have to send x amount of dollars for application fees etc, etc.
Guy tried to pull that crap on me after I graduated and got my cdl. Guy was calling from az claiming he was hiring for Celadon. Probably an ex driver taking advantage of greenhorns. I didn't actually talk to him, he left a message on my voicemail but I knew something wasn't right with that picture. Shortly thereafter, I got a call from my school telling me there was a guy that called claiming to be a recruiter and they gave info out but learned quickly the guy was up to no good and called all the students and let them know about it. Sad really.
SCAM ALERT!!! Industry-wide
Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by BKG, Apr 28, 2008.
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Yes, Brian went to a CDL school and filled out the app online for Roehl. So who knows -- he also had told the school he was going to Roehl -- they weren't one of the recruiters that had come there though. But he had needed his receipt from school (we had paid over the phone) so when he called to get that, he told them what he was doing.
The thing is, there were so many "points of info" going out -- school, physical at a clinic in St. Paul, MN Roehl requested that does the necessary physicals for a variety of occupations, another company he drove for while waiting for his Roehl start date (who knew his Roehl start date), Roehl, the internet (where you can get info on almost anyone -- I know I haven't gotten us off all the internet white pages), even this forum. So who knows.
Again, his recruiter said Roehl had been told about scams like these going on in other companies and people here have mentioned similar calls also, so it doesn't seem like if it IS inside at Roehl, that its unique to Roehl. That actually makes me think it may be something other than the hiring companies themselves.
It's interesting too.... the first 7 calls all came from a TN area code (around Nashville) with caller ID just listing "payphone" although each set of calls had a little different prefix-- but the one i got at the end (while I was posting) was about 4 hours later and it said "CFL payphone" with a 712 area code which is the western 1/4 of IA, but it was the same guy. So I don't know if he could have gotten that far in 4 hours, but that seems strange to me.
BTW, I didn't think the guy sounded very professional.
Anyway, BEWARE!
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If they can spoof Caller ID, then a Fake picture ID maybe used too.
{Unless they are REALLY DUMB and use their own ID !
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And I think Western Union money can be picked up from any location? (Not sure, I have only sent money home from overseas.)
Perhaps, a WU problem with the money forcing the scammer to
come back or at least give a location and camera photo.
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