So I got scammed...

I can't find anything meaningful by ryanlogistic.com when searching in Chrome.

 

that's all I am getting

 

however this works:


https://ryanlogistics.com/

"S" makes all the difference.

 

That sucks, sorry this happened to you.

 

No #### eh? I remember seeing a load posted with that broker and email last week..

 

Even if it has @companyname.com , it could still be a Google server...it is not expensive to buy ur own email @companyname.com

 

I'm only asking because I'm ignorant to it.. If u are paying for a @companyname.com vs a @gmail... Even if the company name email is purchased thru Google, are they not the same thing ?

 

They do offer business hosting. I have mine thru them. Just figured they were the same thing.. Thanks 4 the info

 

Correct they will be different, even if the domain name was purchased from google and google was the cloud service provider hosting their domain for their email servers.

 

No. The whole thing is faked at both ends. No criminal is going to go thru the application process and pay for insurance on a non-existent truck to get an authority active. It's a primitive form of identity theft. That is, it's not any kind of complicated scheme or hack.

You making the call to a known legit number breaks the fraud. Whenever someone calls or contacts you in the first place, it's prudent to call back to verify unless you already know them. If you called on a posted load or the like to begin the transaction, you've already verified by doing that.

You may not even notice the email is fake. The one @DUNE-T posted is visible, but more often they aren't. Most mobile apps and laptop email clients support and display html or rich text automatically. In English, that means the email address you see could have a different one linked (hidden), in the same fashion as a hyperlinked website address where readable address is typically in a blue font and underlined, and you click it to go to the site. On a regular computer, you'd hover the mouse pointer over it to see the link without clicking it. This is a common tactic with phishing emails. The scammer is counting on the victim to click a button or hit reply without checking first, which most trusting people would fall for. There's dozens of ways to fake this stuff and make it look right at first glance.