This whitepaper explains that freight fraud is a fast-growing threat in the U.S. trucking and logistics sector, estimated to cost about $800M annually, and it frames the problem across common schemes such as double brokering, cyberattacks, shipment misdirection, identity theft and impersonation, and physical cargo theft (pages 1 and 4). It summarizes recent trends, including a reported rise in cargo theft and strategic identity-based theft, with hotspots in states like California and Texas and risk corridors such as I-40, and notes that disruptions from the pandemic era increased volatility and cyber-enabled fraud opportunities (pages 7–9). It then recommends layered mitigation: clear stakeholder roles, stronger verification and documentation, FBI-supported investigation and intelligence e

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