Advanced Freight Fraud: Rooted Phones & GPS Spoofing 🕵️

Most people in are unaware of the extent to which the fraud game truly operates.

Here’s a real tactic used daily by bad actors and consolidators:

🛒 Step 1: Buy an older Android model like the Samsung Galaxy A12 (SM-A125F/DS)

📲 Step 2: Pay someone ~$15 on Fiverr to root the device

📍 Step 3: Install GPS spoofing software. With root access, you can hide the spoofing from apps like Macropoint, Amazon Relay, and FourKites. These platforms will show normal tracking, even though it's completely fake.

💥 Amazon Relay Scam — How It Works:

🕵️ Identity is stolen
📦 Load is booked on Amazon Relay
💰 Load is sold to any carrier, at any rate, because they never intend to pay
🚛 An unwitting real carrier hauls the load
📸 Spoofed GPS shows “normal” transit
🧾 POD is collected → Amazon pays in 7 days → Fraudster disappears
🔁 Rinse and repeat with a new MC#

Consolidators employ similar methods to deceive your TMS or tracking platforms by spoofing movement while they reroute your freight to a warehouse, consolidate it, and ship it later by rail or full truckload.

Most brokers and shippers are unaware that it ever happened.

Ever seen this before? Drop a comment.

🛡️Let’s stay sharp and protect every load before it ever hits the road.

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