From odot_ae_consultant_info at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Mon Nov 17 11:30:42 2008 From: odot_ae_consultant_info at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (ODOT Info - A&E Consultants) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:30:42 -0800 Subject: Fraudulent US Department of Transportation Letter Message-ID: THIS MESSAGE IS BEING SENT TO ALL MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS, AND TEAMS PROCESSORS. PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS AS APPROPRIATE. A fraudulent letter supposedly written by the U.S. Department of Transportation is making the rounds in Oregon every few months. The letter targets contractors and suppliers and tells them that in order to make future procurement decisions, the contractor or supplier needs to provide an authorization to release financial information and then asks that they provide the name of their bank, account number and a signature from a company officer. These letters and the accompanying form are sent to businesses in Oregon by fax and the letter directs the recipient to fax their financial information back. In the last year, I have provided warnings to all of ODOT's prequalified contractors and sent this information to the Associated General Contractors and our Department of Justice. The U.S. Department of Transportation keeps a listing of these letters as they make the rounds around the country. The following link will take you to the US DOT website showing the history of these letters. http://www.dot.gov/ost/m60/fraudulent_letters.htm If you work with contractors or suppliers on a regular basis, you may wish to alert them to this fraudulent activity and advise them to ignore the letters. Thank you, Wynnette Gentemann Interim Chief Procurement Officer (503) 986-2987 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: