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Infiltration threat growing
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DLICEHAVE repeated warngs that criminals are using new ctics to get insider information 'out haulage firms, allowing them target valuable loads.
This follows the news that a iver for Maersk was the latest :Aim of an `infiltration deception'.
e was en route to deliver 19 palls of perfume to Felixstowe to be .ntainerised for onward shipment South Africa when he received a )gus call on his mobile. The caller told him that the product had been wrongly labelled and directed him to an address in East London to offload.When he arrived he was met by two people who asked him to off-load 17 of the pallets into two vehicles. The offenders told him that the two remaining pallets were okay and the driver delivered them to Felixstowe.
The £1 00,000 theft did not come to light until the two pallets arrived in South Africa.
DS Mark Hooper from Truckpol warns that bogus callers will ask a series of questions about delivery habits to infiltrate a firm. Thieves then use this information to target specific operators and valuable loads.
"It is so easy to stop these crimes," he says. "Any last minute requests to divert loads to East London postcodes E13, E14 or E16 must be verified, even — or particularly — if the caller appears to have good knowledge of the product.
"Get a landline and remind drivers to verify the job when they tip, as they are still falling for the `round-the-corner' trick," he says.