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Doing so allowed hundreds of new moving companies to begin operations. This led to an increase in competition and soon movers were no longer competing on services but on price. As competition drove prices lower and decreased what were already slim profit margins, "rogue" movers began hijacking personal property as part of a new scam.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
"Moving can be expensive, especially out of state and overseas," said Josh Morales, the president of International Van Lines, a full-service moving company that does over 20,000 moves per year.
Early movers from 1885, Montréal, Québec Movers in Salt Lake City, 1911 Moving van and lift, Germany, 2007. A moving company, also known as a removalist or van line, is a company that specializes in assisting individuals and businesses with relocating their goods from one location to another. Moving companies may offer additional or all ...
Money exchange scams range from crude to clever. While seasoned travelers know to avoid the currency exchanger lurking outside the airport, modern scams often appear perfectly legitimate at first ...
The scams – mostly run out of Southeast Asia - are given that name because they involve “fattening up” victims before taking everything they have.
Interstate Van Lines is a family-owned American moving company based in Springfield, Virginia. [3] The company handles storage and shipping for corporate and government clients, including AOL , Hewlett-Packard and the US military. [ 4 ]
SIRVA, Inc. (formerly Allied Worldwide), based in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, is a privately owned American moving industry holding company which resulted from the merger of Allied Van Lines with North American Van Lines. The corporate name was coined from the Latin word servire, "to serve."