A new warning tonight about scammers who are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of product from local concrete companies, and they may be using you to do it.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A new warning tonight about scammers who are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of product from local concrete companies and they are using you to do it.say they started hearing about this particular scam several years ago in other states but they never expected it to hit Alabama. It started picking up here 3-4 months ago and local concrete companies are now losing money by the thousands.
“I know of two companies in Birmingham who both run three trucks -- what we call mom and pop companies -- so it’s impacting the big guy just as much as the small guy,” said Sorrell. “Let’s say you were pouring a patio and you needed six yards of concrete,” said Sorrell. “They would send someone to your house to collect money for that six yards at $100 a yard so they’d collect $600. The scammer would then pick up and call a local ready mix company in Birmingham and say, ‘We need six yards delivered to this address’ and when they requested payment from the person on the phone, they would provide them a credit card number.
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