Fraudulent Financial Scam * USA - DOT offers to help truckers affected by
Earlier this week, trucking companies in at least three states reported they received fraudulent letters requesting their financial information...
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -June 6, 2008: -- ... on what appeared to be, but was not, U.S. Department of Transportation letterhead stationary... According to the DOT hot line message, if trucking companies’ owners or employees have faxed information in response to the fraudulent letter, they should immediately contact their financial institutions to notify them to watch for “unauthorized wire transfers.” ... If companies have sustained a financial loss because they responded to the fake request, the DOT will also have operators available to assist them further... The DOT officials are also urging trucking company owners and employees who responded to the financial information scam to contact the U.S. Secret Service office in their local areas and also file reports with their local police departments...
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