Description

Silverline Gear Depot is posing as a heavy equipment sales company. A customer can inquire about buying a piece of equipment for sale. The company then immediately emails you a contract to sign for said piece of equipment. No questions asked about the customer. Upon customer signing, they then call you from a random Alabama phone number, different from the phone number listed on their website, and the person speaking has a foreign accent. They then ask to set up a wire transfer of the money as soon as possible. I was asked to wire $12,000 to them. Closer inspection of Silverline's website shows that the company is using images from another business, conequip.com, in New York and photoshopped a sign of their company name onto an image of Conequip's building. I also looked up the serial number of the piece of heavy equipment I was interested in. The serial number was coming back as a listing for an item being sold in Conestoga, PA not Alabama.