Opinion: Vehicle and equipment seller scams on the rise
Randy Hutchinson
Randy Hutchinson is the President and CEO of the BBB of the Mid-South, serving 28 counties in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. He graduated from Western Maryland College and has an MBA from Wilmington College.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued an alert about crooks posing as vehicle and equipment dealerships to steal money from prospective buyers.
He cited the example of Equipment Express, a legitimate forklift dealer in Tennessee that was impersonated by crooks.
The real company doesn’t have a website, but the crooks created a fake one advertising excavators and dump trucks dirt cheap. They lifted pictures of the equipment off the Internet.
Skrmetti didn’t cite specific victims and how much they lost, but a recent alert from the Connecticut BBB about a similar case did.
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