{
  "slug": "fictitious-pickup-cargo-theft",
  "title": "The truck arrived, the paperwork matched, and the freight was never seen again",
  "summary": "Cargo theft hit nearly $725M in 2025. Fictitious pickup and double brokering are identity failures at the dock, and here is the control that stops them.",
  "lede": "Estimated cargo theft losses in the United States and Canada reached nearly $725 million in 2025, up roughly 60 percent in a single year, and the fastest growing share of it is not people cutting locks. It is people who are handed the freight. Every document in the chain can be forged. A signature from an enrolled dispatcher cannot.",
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Fraud",
  "tags": [
    "cargo theft",
    "fictitious pickup",
    "double brokering",
    "strategic theft",
    "freight fraud",
    "carrier identity",
    "supply chain"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Fictitious%20Pickup%20Cargo%20Theft/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/fictitious-pickup-cargo-theft.html",
  "wordcount": 4617,
  "related": [
    "identity-failure-map",
    "vendor-bank-change-fraud",
    "verify-without-calling-issuer"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}