According to a report, organized crime rings have attacked freight trucks, train cars and warehouses in the United States using a new sneaky strategy, according to a report.
Behind this phenomenon are criminals that hack the technology of the supply chain and pretend to be legitimate maritime companies, wrongly promising to deliver goods to buyers, but the steering wheel rather for their own use, according to a Six month CNBC survey.
There was a record increase in freight flight, with 3,798 incidents in 2024 – an increase of 26% compared to the previous year, according to Verisk Cargonet.
The total losses reported in the US supply chain last year reached nearly $ 455 million, according to Verisk Cargonet.
But several industry experts have told CNBC that the number is probably closer to $ 1 billion or more each year, as many flight incidents are not reported.
“Each day, we see the bad guys trying to infiltrate our network. And our commercial representatives must constantly remain vigilant,” said Jerry Jacobs, who oversees risk management in prosperous logistics in Atlanta, in CNBC.
“I say that all the time to my sellers, that there are probably 33% chance that you were talking to a villain who seeks to steal freight.”
Last December, the position was exclusively reported on an incident of this strategic flight which cost a toamaker more than a million dollars in vacation products.
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And these identity flights are only upwards, representing 8% of the entire freight flight in 2020 – and going to almost a third by the end of 2024, according to Verisk Cargonet.
Criminal groups of at least 32 countries have been linked to these scams, according to Verisk Cargonet.
Brokers hired by companies to organize shipping subjects often use an online platform called Dat Freight and Analytics, according to the CNBC report.
Jacobs showed CNBC the platform, which included lists allegedly produced by his business-but they were in fact launched by crooks, he said.
The problem is “significantly increasing,” said CNBC Birger Buesching, responsible for the supply chain supply chain for the Philips supply chain.
“Two, three years ago, I didn’t have to worry about it,” added Buesching.
Although large companies have been targeted by these crime rings, many are unlikely to report crimes to the authorities or speak of it publicly.
“Many cases, they do not report it because they consider that they will not recover it. It has been weeks since they have lost it and they have discovered it,” CEO of Nothaul, a security risk management company for the supply chain, told CNBC.
In February, the police found five boxes of Lacoste shoes in a store in Los Angeles which was part of a huge freight robbery, according to a police report.
And Lululemon reported in May a burglary in a distribution center in California, where thieves left with “more than a million dollars” in Lululemon Products, “said officials.
Consumers could start to see the effects of a widespread freight flight, as it forces retailers to hike prices and to fight to fill the inventory of the soil.
“If you are a consumer and you wanted this shirt and we only made 100 of them and 50 of them have been stolen, we will strategically place the other 50 in a different place, as well as a different channel,” Ellen Kapiloff, vice-president of the North and Central Operations of Lacoste, told CNBC.
“So it may not be available in a store or online when you wish.”
Lululemon said he was taking measures to combat retail crime and that in this case, his “collaborative investigation led to the arrest and recovery of stolen products”.
As part of these complex patterns, the pirates modify the telephone number, email or the address of a company on the website of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Safety Administration, where the shippers are registered.
The security agency regularly updates its security protocol and develops a modernized recording system with stricter guarantees, an FMCSA spokesperson in CNBC told.
Maritime companies have taken hand, investing millions of dollars in improved security systems.
Legislation to fight against increasing crime tactics has also been introduced.
Representative David Valadao of California, as well as other legislators, introduced in April the fight against the law on organized commercial crime, which would create a coordination center within the Ministry of Internal Security to combat retail crime, including freight theft. The bill is pending.
Meanwhile, a bipartite bill introduced into the Senate known as consumer protection law of household goods would give the FMCSA the power to impose civil sanctions and stricter regulations against imitators.
