Crime rings attack the US supply chain with this sneaky tactics with record rates: Report

According to a report, organized crime rings have attacked cargo cars, train cars and warehouses in the USA for record rates.

Behind this phenomenon are criminals who chop themselves into the technology of supply chain technology and pretend to be legitimate shipping companies and incorrectly promise to deliver freight, but to steal them for their own use after a six-month CNBC examination.

According to Verisk Cargonet, there was a record rose of the freight theft with 3,798 incidents in 2024 – an increase of 26% compared to the previous year.

According to Verisk Cargonet, the total losses in the US supply chain were almost 455 million dollars last year last year.

However, several industry experts announced CNBC that the number is probably closer to $ 1 billion or more per year, since many theft incidents are not reported.

“Every day we see the bad guys who try to infiltrate our network. And our sales employees have to constantly remain vigilant,” said Jerry Jacobs, who monitors risk management at prosponsive logistics in Atlanta.

“I say that all the time to my sellers that there is probably a chance of 33% that they speak to a villain who steals after freight.”

In December last December, Swiss Post reported exclusively on an incident of this strategic theft, in which a Jome maker mers of fiery stimuluses of fiery costs.

The Flycatcher, based in London, lost 12,600 toy projectors in mid -October after his broker had accepted offers from two apparently legitimate companies that turned out to be thieves who, according to police reports, issued the two companies.

And these identity thefts are only 8% of all freight theft in 2020-and according to Verisk Cargonet, jump to almost a third by the end of 2024.

According to Verisk Cargonet, criminal groups from at least 32 countries were associated with these fraud.

According to the CNBC report, brokers commissioned by companies to organize shipping matters often use an online platform called freight and analytics.

Jacobs showed CNBC the platform that was allegedly given by his company – but they were actually initiated by Crooks, he said.

The problem is that the Birger Buesching, head of the supply chain for the personal health business of Philips, including Sonicare toothbrushes, increases noticeably, told CNBC.

“Two years ago, three years ago I didn't have to worry about it,” added Buesching.

While large companies have been targeted by these crime rings, it is unlikely that many of the crimes will report to the authorities or speak publicly.

“Many cases, they do not report it because they feel that they don't get it back. It has been weeks since they lost it and they have just learned about it,” said Barry Conlon, CEO von Overbaul, a risk management company for Supply Chain's security risk management company, to CNBC.

In February, the officers found five boxes of Lacoste shoes in a shop in Los Angeles who, according to a police report, were part of a huge cargo.

And Lululemon reported a slump in a sales center in California in May, where thieves were coordinated with “well over a million dollar 'Lululemon product”, the official said.

Consumers were able to recognize the effects of a widespread freight theft, as they force retailers to increase prices and try to fill the inventory.

“If you are a consumer and wanted this shirt and we only made 100 of you and 50 of you, we will strategically place the other 50 in another place and another channel,” Ellen Kapiloff, Lacostes North and Central America President of the Operations, told CNBC.

“It may not be available in a shop or online if you want it.”

Lululemon said that measures to combat the retail break was taken, and in this case his “collaborative examination was led to an arrest and restoration of stolen products”.

As part of these complex programs, Hacker change the phone number, e -mail or address of a company on the website of the Federal Motor Carry Safety Administration, on which the senders register.

The security authority regularly updates its security protocol and develops a modernized registration system with stricter protective measures, an FMCSA spokesman told CNBC.

Redereies have taken measures themselves and invested millions of dollars in improved security systems.

Some laws to combat the growing crime tactics have also been introduced.

MP David Valadao from California, together with other legislators, introduced the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, which would create a coordination center within the Ministry of Homeland Security in order to tackle retail crime, including freight theft. The invoice is still pending.

In the meantime, a cross -party law on the Consumer Protection Act of Household goods of FMCSA would give the authority to present civil law sanctions and stricter regulations against imitators.