Burns & McDonnell -SCAM

[loaders]

Heads up to my fellow freight brokers out there. We just recently dodged a bullet with a pretty elaborate scam using a large, well known company. We received a request for quotes regarding a number of shipments within the US. Our investigation revealed that the company certainly appeared legitimate. However when we reached out to another source at the company, they told us that their corporate identity had recently been hacked and to not conduct any business with people pretending to be Burns & McDonnell. I will admit, our staff was a little “star struck” at first, blinded by the scope of the potential new business and the seeming legitimacy of the possible new customer. When business is slow, as it is now, it’s easy to jump the gun. Lesson learned at our place….”if it seems to good to be true”! Fortunately no money was lost, just some time, but a valuable lesson received.

 

[BPOVFB]

using domain "@burnsmcdus.com" ?
Seeing alot of these requests with fake domains these days, getting crafty.

 

[loaders]

using domain "@burnsmcdus.com" ?
Seeing alot of these requests with fake domains these days, getting crafty.

Extremely crafty. Seems that the intricacies and complexities of the scams get better as business gets slower. You can’t emphasize enough with your team how important due diligence is at all times.

 

[AgentSmith]

Whenever I get an unsolicited emails for a great opportunity on new business I immediately lookup the emailer's domain to see when it was registered and also compare the domain to the companies website domain

 

[senditover]

We received the same request from this outfit "smurley@burnsmcdus.com". It seems the actual company is already aware of it and posted this on their website

Fraud Contact | Careers | Burns & McDonnell

www.burnsmcd.com

 

[AgentSmith]

I tried to warn companies and individuals working for them of the scams just as an FYI and it is extremely difficult to navigate most companies menu tree and get anyone on the phone, I sent emails to the address on contact us pages and even messaged the person they are posing as via LinkedIn, rarely do I get a response.

Pretty impressive that Burns & McDonnell took it seriously enough to put it up on their web page and wonder what happened to warrant such action

 

[senditover]

I tried to warn companies and individuals working for them of the scams just as an FYI and it is extremely difficult to navigate most companies menu tree and get anyone on the phone, I sent emails to the address on contact us pages and even messaged the person they are posing as via LinkedIn, rarely do I get a response.

They've clearly had multiple people targetted using their name so it becomes tedious having to handle each individual that reaches out. Either that or they are also in on it. Anything is possible these days.

 

[JN1981]

I received a quote request through our website from smurley@ address.