When the pandemic struck, Randy Li went to the United States to be with his mother. When the borders closed, he had to vacate his Montreal apartment and that's when his problems started.
As the busy moving season starts to ramp up, a group of Winnipeggers is warning those looking to hire a mover to be careful after they lost hundreds of dollars to a moving company that didn't show up.
A group of moving companies is offering low quotes and then increasing the total cost of moves by thousands of dollars in some cases grossly over-estimating the weight of goods to be moved, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found.
A noted rise in the amount of moving scams targeting those looking to move East, with the Better Business Bureau confirming some scammers have loaded people’s belongings on trucks, only to hold it all for a hefty ransom.
The scam singles out victims who can’t allow movers into their home to verify shipment sizes, a common problem during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Better Business Bureau, (BBB) and the Canadian Association of Movers, (CAM) released a joint update concerning what both groups call “fraudulent moving companies having been identified and purposely underestimating moving quotes for consumers” adding the scams are particularly prevalent in cross-provincial moves from Ontario to the Atlantic Provinces.
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