Scam: Paul Mckeen Equipment & Vehicles West Point, GA (paulmckeenequipmentvehicles.com): buyer reports wiring $29,900 for a 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 that was not delivered

The 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 as advertised

Paul Mckeen Equipment & Vehicles listed a 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 on paulmckeenequipmentvehicles.com with 818 engine hours and an asking price of $29,900. The seller's page gives the unit year, model and hours as the primary specs. The site publishes the trading name Paul Mckeen Equipment & Vehicles, a street address of 19425 GA-219, West Point, GA 31833, US and a contact phone number of (706) 810-9974. The site homepage returns HTTP 200 and presents the title Paul Mckeen Equipment & Vehicles Your best heavy equipment supplier.

What the buyer reports

According to the reporting buyer's account, they paid the full asking price of $29,900 by bank wire for the advertised 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 and the machine never arrived. The reporting buyer describes wiring the $29,900 and receiving no equipment in exchange. The payment method logged by the reporting buyer is a bank wire.

Checking a Kubota SVL75-2 before you pay

A Kubota SVL75-2 is a compact track loader built around a visible main frame and an operator station. Before you transfer funds for a machine like this, verify these points yourself or through an authorized representative:

• Confirm the serial plate or product identification number. On compact track loaders the plate is commonly mounted on the mainframe near the rear or inside the operator compartment. Ask the seller for a clear, close photo of the serial plate and a photograph of the whole machine showing the plate in context so you can verify it is the same unit shown in other listing photos.
• Take the serial plate number to an authorized Kubota dealer and ask them to confirm whether that PIN is valid for the model and to provide any recorded service history linked to the number. A dealer can also tell you whether the engine hours on the meter are consistent with the machine's service and replacement history.
• Compare the advertised hours to the wear visible in photos. Look closely at track condition, undercarriage wear, paint and attachment wear. Photographs that are low resolution, heavily cropped or that show inconsistent backgrounds make verification harder.
• Check for liens. Search recorded security interests in the state where the seller claims to be located. A filed lien can mean the seller does not have the free title required to sell.
• Run a stolen-equipment check. Use national and regional stolen-equipment databases and contact local law enforcement to ask whether the machine or the plate number appears in theft reports.
• Confirm the seller's business credentials. Ask for a written bill of sale with the seller's legal business name, a matching phone number and a verified address. If the seller claims to be a dealer, request proof of dealer licensing or a business registration number and then verify those records with the issuing authority.

These checks are things you should do before sending any funds for a tracked loader of this size.

How the payment was taken

The reporting buyer says payment was made by bank wire. A completed bank wire is final in most cases and does not provide a card network chargeback option. Where a wire has settled there is usually only a narrow set of bank processes available to try to recover funds, and those depend on the sending and receiving banks and on whether the recipient will cooperate.

What we have and have not verified

We have these documented observations from the listing and public scans: the site domain paulmckeenequipmentvehicles.com was registered on 2026-08-12 through Fewmoretaps OU dba Trustname.com; the registration record shows privacy protection; the site serves HTTPS and the homepage responds with HTTP 200. The listing page names a 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 with 818 hours and an asking price of $29,900. A reporting buyer says they wired $29,900 and received no machine.

Outstanding checks we have not completed and that a prospective buyer should pursue include: physical verification that the machine exists at the published street address; confirmation of the machine serial plate and its match to the listing photos; checking the serial plate with an authorized Kubota dealer for service history; searching state-recorded liens on the vehicle; a stolen-equipment database query; and verification of any dealer licensing the seller may claim.

This entry is based solely on the listing and on the reporting buyer's account. We will update if further verifiable records or responses from the operator become available.

If you have already paid

If you have already sent a bank wire, contact your bank's fraud or wire department immediately and ask what options they can attempt, including whether an outgoing wire can be recalled. Submit a report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov and also notify your state attorney general's consumer protection office. Keep every receipt, bank statement and message related to the transaction and provide those documents to your bank and to any law enforcement or consumer protection agency you contact.