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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.
A federal grand jury has charged 12 people with conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud customers through their moving companies.
Even the moving industry isn't immune to fraud. According to the Better Business Bureau, a total of 230 moving scams were reported, a record 91% higher than the previous year, as reported by...
Better Business Bureau says more than 5,000 complaints came in over moving companies in 2023.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
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".
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 ...
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