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1 seller on record

Trucks scams

Semi tractors, dump trucks, and service trucks sold against fake fleet disposals and borrowed DOT numbers.

Sellers reported
1
Total paid by buyers
$61,800
Buyers on record
3

How it runs

Buying semi tractors, dumps, and service trucks from a seller you cannot visit

Owner-operators and small fleets are targeted because the purchase is urgent and financed against work already booked. The listing is a clean Freightliner Cascadia or Peterbilt 579 at a fleet-disposal price, offered by an outfit presenting itself as a leasing company, a fleet manager, or a dealer moving units before a quarter closes. Credibility comes from paperwork: a DOT number, an MC number, a certificate of insurance, a bill of sale on letterhead. Every one of those can be copied from a real carrier in minutes, and usually is. The pressure is applied through competing buyers and a transport slot that closes today. Payment is a wire to a business-sounding account name, or a series of smaller Zelle transfers to stay under transfer ceilings, which also puts the money past the point where a bank can pull it back.

Four checks that end it

  1. 01Run the DOT and MC numbers in the federal carrier register and confirm the legal name, address, and phone match the seller exactly.
  2. 02Ask for the VIN and run a title history yourself. Decline any seller who will not release a VIN before payment.
  3. 03Refuse to split a payment into several smaller transfers. That request exists only to defeat your bank's controls.
  4. 04Confirm the certificate of insurance by calling the insurer at a number you looked up independently.

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