Alta Machinery Group (impersonator of real Alta Equipment Group) in Milwaukee, WI (Wisconsin) — website altamachinerygroup.com, phone (414) 295-9961, email support@altamachinerygroup.com, address 111 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee WI 53202. Read complaints and reviews of Alta Machinery Group (impersonator of real Alta Equipment Group) Milwaukee Wisconsin before sending any money.
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The site brands itself as "Alta Machinery Group" of 111 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202, reachable at (414) 295-9961 and support@altamachinerygroup.com. None of these contact points lead to a real heavy equipment dealership. The Wisconsin Avenue address is a downtown office skyscraper, not a yard where you would park or pick up a mini excavator.
There is a real, NYSE-listed company called Alta Equipment Group (ticker ALTG). It runs verified dealership locations across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida and other states and carries Volvo, Hyster, Yale, Kubota, JCB and similar lines. "Alta Machinery Group" is a near-clone designed to make buyers believe they are dealing with that legitimate firm. The real Alta lives at altaequipment.com — never at altamachinerygroup.com.
On the product page for the 2017 Kubota KX080-4 mini excavator (Offer ID 30173, 2,527 hours, $14,500), the spec panel claims the machine runs on gasoline. That is mechanically impossible — Kubota has never built a gasoline KX080-4. The narrative copy on the same page even names the correct V3307-CR-TE4 diesel engine. No real used-equipment dealer would publish a contradiction like that; only a scammer assembling pages from scraped fragments would.
A genuine excavator dealer's recommended inventory should be other excavators, skid steers, dozers or attachments. Instead, altamachinerygroup.com cross-promotes a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia at $22,400, a 2008 Freightliner Sportchassis at $23,100, a 2012 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36SBT at $18,000, a 2019 Entegra Odyssey 31F Class C at $19,600, a 2006 Freightliner Sport Chassis Ranch Hauler at $21,600 and a 2002 Freightliner FL60 Sport Chassis at $19,800. That random mix screams reused scam template.
Once a buyer commits to the $14,500 Kubota, the seller pushes for wire, Zelle, ACH or cryptocurrency — payment rails that are extremely hard to reverse. As soon as the money clears, both the (414) 295-9961 phone line and the support@altamachinerygroup.com inbox go cold. No tracking, no bill of sale, no machine.
The buyer who filed this report sent the full $14,500 listed price for the 2017 Kubota KX080-4 mini excavator by wire. The mini excavator never showed up, no carrier was ever booked, and Alta Machinery Group stopped replying. Do not send any funds to altamachinerygroup.com.
Address is a downtown Milwaukee office tower
111 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202 is a Class A commercial high-rise — there is physically no room for excavators, trucks or a service bay at that street number.
Name clones NYSE-listed Alta Equipment Group
"Alta Machinery Group" is one word away from the real Alta Equipment Group (ticker ALTG), which actually trades publicly and operates at altaequipment.com — altamachinerygroup.com has no relationship to that company.
Kubota KX080-4 labeled as gasoline
The 2017 KX080-4 listing (Offer ID 30173) shows "Fuel Type: Gasoline," yet Kubota has only ever built the KX080-4 with a V3307-CR-TE4 diesel — a contradiction the site's own description text confirms.
Mini excavator priced flat at $14,500 with 2,527 hours
A cab-equipped 2017 KX080-4 with 2,527 hours typically trades well above $14,500 at legitimate dealers; the round-number price is bait to draw quick wire transfers.
Related listings are RVs and Freightliner trucks
An excavator dealer cross-selling a 2012 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36SBT ($18,000), a 2019 Entegra Odyssey 31F ($19,600) and Freightliner Sport Chassis units shows altamachinerygroup.com is running a recycled scam template, not a real Kubota inventory.
Milwaukee 414 number with no dealership trail
(414) 295-9961 carries a Milwaukee area code but maps to no licensed Wisconsin equipment dealership, service center or registered Kubota outlet.
Generic support@ mailbox
A real multi-million-dollar equipment dealer would route sales through named sales reps, not a single anonymous support@altamachinerygroup.com inbox that goes silent after payment.
Push to wire, Zelle, ACH or crypto
After agreeing on the $14,500 KX080-4, the seller insists on irreversible payment rails — none of the consumer protections an actual dealership offers via dealer financing or escrow.
“I'd been looking for a cab Kubota KX080-4 for months and the 2017 listing at $14,500 on altamachinerygroup.com seemed reasonable for the hours. I called (414) 295-9961, got a polite guy who emailed me a sales order from support@altamachinerygroup.com and asked me to wire the full $14,500 to lock it in before another buyer did. I wired the funds that afternoon. By the next morning the phone went straight to voicemail, my emails bounced back as unread, and no carrier was ever dispatched. I'm out the entire $14,500.”
Day 0
altamachinerygroup.com goes live posing as a Milwaukee-based heavy equipment dealer using the Alta name.
Day +5
Listings for the 2017 Kubota KX080-4 and a grab-bag of Freightliners and RVs are published with the 111 E Wisconsin Ave address and (414) 295-9961 phone.
2026-04-22
Buyer finds the KX080-4 listing at $14,500 and emails support@altamachinerygroup.com to ask about delivery.
2026-04-24
Buyer calls (414) 295-9961, agrees on the $14,500 price, and is sent wire instructions.
2026-04-25
Buyer wires the full $14,500 from their bank.
2026-04-28
Phone calls to (414) 295-9961 stop being answered and emails to support@altamachinerygroup.com go unread.
2026-05-30
Buyer files this report after confirming altamachinerygroup.com is not affiliated with the real Alta Equipment Group (NYSE: ALTG).
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Online Purchase — Heavy Equipment Fraud (Brand Impersonation)
May 30, 2026
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No. Alta Machinery Group, advertising 111 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202 with phone (414) 295-9961 and support@altamachinerygroup.com, has been reported as a heavy equipment purchase scam. The site copies the name of the publicly-traded Alta Equipment Group (NYSE: ALTG) but has no connection to it.
No. The real Alta Equipment Group operates at altaequipment.com and has dozens of physical dealership locations across the Midwest and Northeast. altamachinerygroup.com is a separate, fraudulent site that hijacks the Alta name. If you intend to buy from the real Alta, go directly to altaequipment.com.
The specification panel lists the 2017 Kubota KX080-4 as gasoline-powered. The KX080-4 has only ever been built with a Kubota V3307-CR-TE4 diesel engine. The site's own product description even confirms the diesel engine, contradicting its own spec sheet — a clear signal whoever built the page is not a real equipment dealer.
That address is a Class A commercial office tower in downtown Milwaukee. Heavy equipment dealers operate from industrial yards with cranes, loading areas and parking for machines — not from high-rise office floors. The address is almost certainly a virtual office mailbox or simply a fabricated location chosen for credibility.
(414) 295-9961 is the number published by Alta Machinery Group on altamachinerygroup.com. The 414 area code is Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The line has been linked to the heavy equipment scam documented in this report.
No. support@altamachinerygroup.com is the contact mailbox for the scam. Buyers report that responses dry up entirely once a wire or crypto payment lands.
Call your bank immediately and request a wire recall; if you used a card, open a chargeback. File complaints at reportfraud.ftc.gov and ic3.gov, contact the Wisconsin Department of Justice consumer protection office in Madison, and notify the real Alta Equipment Group through altaequipment.com so they can address the trademark abuse.
Because altamachinerygroup.com is running a generic scam template. Real excavator dealers cross-sell other earthmoving equipment, not motorhomes and sport-chassis pickups. The mismatched related listings (Freightliner Cascadia, Holiday Rambler Vacationer, Entegra Odyssey, etc.) reveal that the inventory was scraped or invented in bulk.
If you landed here after googling Alta Machinery Group, altamachinerygroup.com, (414) 295-9961, support@altamachinerygroup.com or 111 E Wisconsin Ave Milwaukee WI 53202: this is a scam. The site has nothing to do with the real publicly-traded Alta Equipment Group (NYSE: ALTG), parks itself at a downtown office tower address that has no equipment yard, publishes an impossible "gasoline" spec on a diesel Kubota KX080-4, and pads its catalog with mismatched Freightliner trucks and motorhomes. One buyer is already out $14,500 on the KX080-4 listed at $14,500. Keep your money — do not buy anything from altamachinerygroup.com.
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