How Fraud Movers Steal Legitimate Companies' Names to Hide Their Operations

In September 2019, a fraud operator named Moran Hasut registered a Georgia LLC called Logistic Moving Services LLC at 1800 Montreal Ct, Tucker, GA, the same building where he ran Handle With Care Moving, a carrier that would be revoked three times for consumer fraud.

One year earlier, in September 2018, a legitimate Florida intrastate carrier called Logistics Moving Services LLC had filed with the state of Florida, set up operations in Bradenton, and earned a BBB A+ rating.

The names differ by one letter. That was not an accident.

Hasut's dissolved Georgia company, with no DOT number and no FMCSA registration, was used in connection with a warehouse lease in Leavenworth, Kansas where consumer belongings were stored without authorization.

The payment trail adds another layer. In at least one documented case, Omar Butt of JCS Moving instructed a consumer to make the money order payable to 'Logistics Moving Services,' with the 's.' The purpose was likely to mislead the consumer and mask any research the consumer might do: a search for 'Logistics Moving Services' returns a legitimate, BBB A+ rated Florida carrier, not a dissolved Georgia shell. Hasut could deposit a payment made out to 'Logistics' (with the 's') despite the slight spelling difference from his registered entity name. This does not implicate the Florida company. It exploits the Florida company's reputation as cover.

Logistics Moving Services LLC (with 's'): Florida LLC (SunBiz Document L18000209906), DOT 4433059, based at 5615 42nd Street East, Bradenton, FL 34203. Filed September 4, 2018. Managed by Roque A. Chirinos and Michael Sutherland. BBB A+ rated. Active, with annual reports filed through 2026. A legitimate Florida intrastate carrier with no connection to Hasut, Handle With Care, JCS, or any entity in the Tucker, Georgia fraud network.

Logistic Moving Services LLC (no 's'): Georgia LLC formed September 20, 2019, one year after the Florida company was already operating. Registered agent: Moran Hasut. Address: 1800 Montreal Ct Unit B, Tucker, GA 30084, the same building as Handle With Care Moving and Transportation LLC. Administratively dissolved September 8, 2023. No DOT number. No FMCSA registration. Georgia Secretary of State Control Number 19129895.

The Leavenworth, Kansas warehouse eviction notice was addressed to this Tucker, GA address. When JCS Moving directed a consumer to make a payment, the name given was 'Logistics Moving Services,' with the 's.' The intent was likely to mislead the consumer: anyone searching that name would find the legitimate Florida carrier, not a dissolved Georgia shell. A bank would process a deposit with a one-letter spelling variation. This does not implicate the Florida company. It uses the Florida company's clean record as camouflage.

The timeline matters. Hasut formed his company a year after the Florida carrier was already established. He chose a name one letter away from an existing, legitimate, BBB A+ rated business. This was not an accident.

The moving industry has remarkably little naming variety. Search FMCSA's database for 'American' and you will find hundreds of carriers. Search 'Express' or 'National' or 'United' and the same thing happens. This is not an accident. It is a feature of how fraud operators work.

Scammers choose names that are close to legitimate companies for three reasons:

First, consumer confusion. A consumer searching for 'Allied Van Lines' finds a company calling itself 'Allied Van Lines Moving and Storage LLC,' a fake entity registered in Florida by a fraudster. The consumer believes they hired a trusted national brand. They hired a shell company that will subcontract their move to an unlicensed carrier and dissolve within weeks.

Second, payment obfuscation. When Hasut's dissolved Georgia company 'Logistic Moving Services LLC' collects payment, a bank processing a check or wire to 'Logistics Moving Services' (with the 's') would not flag the discrepancy. The names are close enough that the legitimate company's banking infrastructure could theoretically be exploited, or at minimum, the paper trail becomes harder to follow.

Third, investigative confusion. It worked on us. We are a research platform that cross-references corporate filings, FMCSA data, and court records, and we still conflated the two entities for months. If a platform dedicated to tracking fraud cannot reliably distinguish 'Logistic' from 'Logistics,' regulators processing thousands of complaints are even less likely to catch it.

This is not limited to the Hasut case. The fake 'Allied Van Lines Moving and Storage LLC' that defrauded the Eschbach family in Chicago was formed by Zackary Sudakoff in Boca Raton and dissolved days after the move. The real Allied Van Lines, one of the largest van lines in the country, had no involvement. Same pattern: a name close enough to a legitimate company to create confusion, registered as a disposable LLC in a state with minimal corporate oversight.

The Florida carrier did nothing wrong. It operated legally, maintained its filings, earned a BBB A+ rating, and served its customers. But because a fraud operator chose a name one letter away, the Florida company's DOT number and profile became entangled with a fraud network.

Trunk made this mistake ourselves. We attributed DOT 4433059 (the Florida company) to the Hasut fraud network across 11 articles and 1 mover profile. We listed the Florida company with red flags that belonged to the Georgia entity. We tagged it in articles about the Leavenworth warehouse, the Sherwood Lane network, and the Handle With Care reincarnation chain. Every attribution was wrong.

A retired transportation attorney identified the error by cross-referencing Georgia corporate filings against FMCSA registrations. Every reference has been corrected. The Florida company's profile has been cleared. This article is the public record of that correction.

If a research platform dedicated to tracking fraud could not distinguish these two entities for months, the damage to the legitimate carrier from banks, insurers, law enforcement, and consumers who encounter the wrong name is difficult to quantify.

Name confusion is a systemic vulnerability in moving industry regulation. FMCSA's registration system does not prevent a new applicant from registering a name nearly identical to an existing carrier. There is no trademark check, no similarity flag, no warning to the consumer or the existing company.

A consumer checking FMCSA's database for 'Logistics Moving Services' would find the legitimate Florida carrier and assume it was the company handling their move. A consumer told to make a check payable to 'Logistic Moving Services' would have no way to know that was a dissolved Georgia shell with no federal authority.

The absence of a name similarity check in FMCSA's registration process is not a minor administrative gap. It is a tool that fraud operators exploit repeatedly. Until the registration system flags applications with names substantially similar to existing carriers, this pattern will continue.

We will continue to verify corporate filings against FMCSA registrations. When we get it wrong, we will say so publicly.