Greetings! 

Thanks to our friends at the Illinois Movers Association and Canadian Association of Movers for alerting us to this important information from the US DOT / FMCSA...  Please  feel free to forward this using the link at the bottom of this email. 

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The attached document is an example of a new round of fraudulent USDOT letters dated February 7, 2011 that are starting to circulate among motor carriers. The letters appear to be from the "U.S. Department of Transportation Procurement Office" and are signed with the fictitious name of "David Hoffman - Senior Procurement Officer". The letters are attempting to obtain banking information from the targeted companies.

(To view fraudulent document, click here.)

Please advise your local carriers of the possibility of this fraudulent financial data collection activity beginning again and to be suspicious when being asked for banking information from anyone.

You can also direct them to the USDOT OIG Website below for more information:

http://www.dot.gov/ost/m60/fraudulent_letters.htm