Scammer tried to book a load with my numbers yesterday.

zinita17601 · Mar 2, 2024

Arctic_fox said: ↑

I just have an old ford transit i use to run parts i slapped the numbers on. Insurance diffrence is $500 a year ($2100ish before $2600ish now) when it was a personal vehicle since i put less then 1k miles a year on it and its all non hazmat "cargo" and under 10,001. Likely another $250 for all the yearly fees and crap. YMMV with what your insurance will let you get away with though. Mine is a local branch and the dude knows i put all of 320 miles on the thing last year lol.
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I never thoughts of that,so just slap numbers on a pick up or something will work? I have to check with my agent.thanks man

Constant Learner · Mar 2, 2024

gekko1323 said: ↑

I got this email yesterday from the logistics coordinator at Integrity Express Logistics out of Cinci OH, asking if I had contacted them to book a load.

"Hello,

Please advise if the person below is authorized to book loads for your company. Due to recent fraud and scams in the logistics world, we take an extra step to verify who is contacting us on behalf of your MC#.

Thanks,"

I replied that, "the only one authorized to book loads for my company is ME."

So we emailed each other about a half-dozen times. She said that the email and phone numbers didn't match what was on SAFER, so that's why she contacted me. I ended up getting set up with her and she offered me seafood loads when I hit the road again.

I have the email address of the scammer and I had started to write him a strongly worded email. But then I realized that I really didn't know who they were or what they were capable of, so I didn't want to make myself a target. What should I do with the info? Contact FMCSA, USDOT, FBI?

Anyway, I posted this to let you guys know that the scammers are still at it, despite all the talk about tightening up the industry. Please verify all emails and phone numbers with SAFER before booking a load. Lately, I've noticed a lot of postings on DAT where the "brokers" specifically state to contact them at their personal email, usually gmail. To me, this is fishy. To you brokers out there, is there a specific benefit or reason for a LEGIT broker to do this?
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That's not your problem, the problem is when you book a load with a scammer.

Vampire · Mar 3, 2024

Dino soar said: ↑

All of this is extremely common.

When I got my authority in 2019, the officer I spoke with said that there are gangs of serbians and Russians going around creating fake CDLs and running fake numbers.

A while back I had a company contact me about a load. I said I never hauled your load.

She said yes you did you picked it up on such and such date these are your numbers..

Well they never checked for the right email or phone number and they gave the load to some Criminal.

Apparently this stuff goes on all the time and it's the broker's fault for not verifying who it actually is.
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The DOT would much rather fine you for complete nonsense than go after these crooks who are trying to run with stolen numbers.

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