Alert: Regarding Fraudulent Activity

Attention:  Important Alert Regarding Fraudulent Activity

Fraudulent Purchase Orders

Fraudulent Purchase Order schemes include imposters posing as an employee of a company. These imposters submit credit applications and/or place orders for materials and equipment over the phone or via email that looks or sounds like a Cleveland Construction email account; using the actual name, address, and title of a Cleveland Construction employee; and/or providing a phone number that when called is always answered “Cleveland Construction.”

Imposters provide false purchase order and/or contract numbers; stress that the order needs to be expedited; and explains that there may not be someone on-site to sign for the delivery but ask you to leave it at the site without a signature.

What you can do

All legitimate correspondence from Cleveland Construction will come only from email addresses that end in “@clevelandconstruction.com”.  There are no variations of these email addresses.  If you receive an email from a free web-based email account (such as “@yahoo.com” or “@gmail.com”) or from slightly altered variation such as “@clevelandconstructions.com” or “@cleveland-construction.com”, you should assume that the email is a scam. 

If you have any doubt about the validity of an order, you should confirm the order with Cleveland Construction before fulfilling the order by contacting our corporate headquarters at the phone number listed on our company website. If you are an existing Cleveland Construction vendor, call the office you usually do business with. Do not use the phone number that was provided with the order and do not use email or text. Ask to speak to the Project Manager on the job that the order is for, or Cleveland Construction’s Controller. Please contact us to report an imposter as well at legal@clevelandconstruction.com. 

Employment 
Please be aware of spoof emails and fake job postings that appear to be from well-known companies, including Cleveland Construction. To bait you, an email or job posting may offer you an immediate employment opportunity, then ask you to submit personal information or give you direction to begin work immediately. These fake emails and job postings are an attempt to gain your private information through fraudulent methods.

NOTE: Cleveland Construction does not make offers of employment prior to completion of a thorough hiring process, which includes a face-to-face interview. The company does not request any payment from the candidate during the hire process.

If you have received an offer of employment and you have not participated in a face-to-face interview with Cleveland Construction, the correspondence you received is fraudulent and should be disregarded.

Payment Instructions
 
Cleveland Construction has become aware of efforts by third parties to illegally obtain payments through fraudulent emails or other forms of communication to provide new and different payment instructions. Please do not act upon or accept any request to change payment instructions unless the communication comes directly from Cleveland Construction’s Controller in writing and you follow up with a phone call to Cleveland Construction’s corporate headquarters using the phone number listed on the company’s website.

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