YAKIMA, Wash. — A Yakima business owner has been getting calls about his company’s website from buyers across the country.
However, the company has a website.
“We’ve been is business for over 45 years, manufacturing deeds,” said Jim Kunz, Owner of Carrier Transports, Inc. “I’ve been working here for 44.”
One day in December, Kunz learned a business.
“I would get a teletelephone call from a code out of the area, and other folks would ask about the apparatus that on our website,” Kunz said. “We do not have a website, and we do not sell apparatus. It took a few of the ones teletelephone calls to figure out what going on. »
The website in question advertises services that in reality, Carrier Transports does not offer. In fact, most of what they do is service trailers which are primarily used for transporting fruit.
“My rough count is maybe 160, 170 phone calls from people,” Kunz said. “Looking from our website which we don’t have, and wanting to find out information of the equipment that we’re selling.”
Kunz estimates that, collectively, other people spent about $73,000 on this website, which uses the call and copes with his business, but that’s about it for similarities.
“Of course, they are disappointed,” said Kunz. “I think the smallest is $ 7,000, up to $ 18,000, other people told me that they had sent those other people. I can even see the fear that someone is very disappointed so that they have cheated $ 18,000.
He contacted the police, however, they are not able to him or the other people who have been scammed.
“I would have an idea that they would be more helpful, but they say that since an uncommitted crime opposed to our company or opposed to me, there’s nothing they can do,” Kunz said.
He learned more about the imitators of a PC store in Selah.
“Mike, I think his call is a help,” Kunz said. “In five minutes, he understood that he founded in Japan. “
After answering telephone calls from other people who ask about a fraudulent company, Kunz cannot see that this scenario ends happily.
“I can see the exercise that comes along the track to the school bus,” Kunz said. “I know what is going to happen, but I can’t prevent it. “
An attractive difference between corporate and fraudulent is that Kunz has been running there for forty -five years, but according to Theary they were founded in 2012, which is only thirteen years ago.