Cyberattacks devastated my business!

• Company: CleanItSupply.com

CleanItSupply.com, an online supplier of janitorial and wholesale cleaning products, was recently scammed out of thousands of dollars through a complex scheme involving identity theft and an online scam.

Dan Dillon, founder and president of CleanItSupply.com, said a group of scam artists based in Nigeria used stolen credit card information to order $38,000 worth of supplies from the company's website in March.

The perpetrators then shipped the supplies to people whom they had recruited to work in a fraudulent work-from-home scheme. The scammers convinced the individuals to ship boxes of the CleanItSupply products to a Texas-based freight-shipping company, which would then send the items to U.S. military personnel based overseas.

Dillon said the freight-shipping company was also a victim of the scam. He first suspected something wasn't right when he spotted a lot of orders coming in for the same products in March, so he decided to call the number on one of the orders.

"I got a funny ring, like the call was going overseas," he said. "The person who answered didn't speak English well. I asked for copies of the credit card they used and the person hung up."

It hit Dillon then that his company had been scammed. He quickly contacted the police and was able to trace all of the products before they were shipped overseas.

"It was an overwhelming effort to find the products and then have it shipped back to the vendors," he said. "That cost us a few thousand dollars."

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