The Texas Trucking Association is warning truckers of an attempted scam. A motor carrier received a call that one of its trucks had been involved in a crash and that it was in need of emergency repairs. The caller asked for a payment via Comdata or EFS.

The caller gave the company a unit number that did not belong to that company, but had a trailer number that did. When the company asked for confirmation of those numbers, the caller – who claimed to be a service technician – put them on the phone with someone claiming to be a police officer – who urged them to handle the claim quickly so they could get the truck off the roadway.

The company had not received any calls from its drivers reporting a crash and the unit in question had been sitting in a repair shop since the day before. The company realized it was a scam, made no payments, and shared the alert with the association’s membership.