Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company / Linder Industrial Machinery (impersonator) in Charlotte, NC (North Carolina) — website thomasequipco.com, phone (704) 993-6608 and (817) 747-1001 (two conflicting phone numbers), email support@thomasequipco.com, address 2501 Chamberlain Ave, Charlotte NC 28208.
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thomasequipco.com is a fraudulent online heavy equipment dealer using TWO different brand identities on the same website. The page header, About section, and listing copy use the name "Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company." The contact-us footer block and the "Why Us" section use the name "Linder Industrial Machinery" — which is a REAL, established multi-state Caterpillar and Komatsu dealer with verified physical locations across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The site claims a physical address of 2501 Chamberlain Ave, Charlotte, NC 28208, but lists TWO different phone numbers — (704) 993-6608 (Charlotte, NC) and (817) 747-1001 (Fort Worth, TX). Buyers who send payment receive nothing.
Linder Industrial Machinery is a real, long-established equipment dealer with multiple verified physical locations across the Southeast US, an established BBB record, and an authorized dealership relationship with Caterpillar and Komatsu. The real Linder Industrial Machinery does NOT operate at thomasequipco.com or at the (704) 993-6608 / (817) 747-1001 phone numbers, and is NOT located at 2501 Chamberlain Ave, Charlotte, NC. The use of the Linder name on thomasequipco.com is identity theft — the operators are leveraging the real Linder's reputation to legitimize their scam. If you intended to buy from the real Linder Industrial Machinery, do not contact thomasequipco.com. Look up the real Linder through Caterpillar's or Komatsu's official dealer locator.
Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company / Linder Industrial Machinery (thomasequipco.com) uses the exact same fake credentials as four other reported scam sites: bentonfarmequipment.com (St. Louis, MO), greenlineequipmenttexarkana.com (Texarkana, TX / Hopkinsville, KY), peacemakertractor.com (Hopkinsville, KY), and bishopandwachholz.com (Kasson, MN). All five sites display identical "Bond Number: CO 13069," identical "Company Reg#: 20211929794," identical claimed formation date "10/07/2015," and identical templated copy including the "Revolutionize your cars & trucks shopping" leftover phrase. This confirms thomasequipco.com is the FIFTH known site in a multi-site fraudulent network. Any heavy equipment dealer website displaying "Bond Number: CO 13069" or "Company Reg# 20211929794" should be treated as fraudulent.
thomasequipco.com lists TWO different phone numbers on the same site: (704) 993-6608 with the 704 Charlotte/NC area code, and (817) 747-1001 with the 817 Fort Worth/TX area code. The 704 number appears with the Thomas Equipment branding; the 817 number appears with the Linder Industrial Machinery branding. The site also displays "COST PER MILE ($0.60)" in its top banner — a fake shipping rate slightly different from the "$0.80 per mile" used by the four sister sites in this network. The combination of two phone numbers, two brand names, and a stolen real-business identity is consistent with operators rotating identities to evade detection.
The website advertises Kubota tracked skid steer loaders (SVL95-2S, SVL75-2, SVL65-2, SSV65), Bobcat tracked skid steers (T770), and Caterpillar skid steers (262D3) at suspiciously low prices — examples include a 2021 Kubota SVL95-2S at $17,100, a 2020 Bobcat T770 at $9,900, a 2021 Kubota SSV65 at $9,600, a 2020 Caterpillar 262D3 at $9,900, a 2019 Kubota SVL65-2 at $8,700, a 2022 Kubota SVL75-2 at $16,100, and a 2021 Kubota SVL75-2 at $14,300 — all far below market. After a buyer agrees to purchase, Thomas Equipment / Linder Industrial Machinery demands payment by wire transfer, Zelle, ACH, or cryptocurrency. Once payment clears, the company stops responding entirely.
A buyer reported losing $15,000 to this scam after wiring funds toward a 2021 Kubota SVL95-2S tracked skid steer loader (Stock DT5470, 837 hours) listed at $17,100 on thomasequipco.com. The skid steer was never shipped from the claimed Charlotte, NC location. Do NOT send money to thomasequipco.com.
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Online Purchase — Heavy Equipment Fraud (Multi-Site Scammer Network — Bond CO 13069 — Linder Industrial Machinery Impersonation)
May 3, 2026
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Yes. thomasequipco.com — operating under both "Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company" and "Linder Industrial Machinery" brand names — has been reported as an online heavy equipment scam. The site shares identical fake credentials with four other reported scam sites and impersonates the real Linder Industrial Machinery dealer. Buyers report paying the company for equipment that was never delivered.
No. thomasequipco.com is not a legitimate equipment dealer. The site uses two different brand names on the same page (Thomas Equipment & Machinery and Linder Industrial Machinery), lists two different phone numbers, displays the same fake bond number and registration as four other reported scam sites, contains template-leftover "Revolutionize your cars & trucks shopping" copy, demands wire transfer or cryptocurrency payments, and goes silent once money is sent.
No. The real Linder Industrial Machinery is an established multi-state Caterpillar and Komatsu dealer headquartered in Plant City, Florida with verified physical locations across Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. The real Linder does NOT operate at thomasequipco.com and is NOT at 2501 Chamberlain Ave, Charlotte, NC. The use of the Linder name on thomasequipco.com is identity theft. If you want the real Linder, look them up through Caterpillar's or Komatsu's official dealer locator.
thomasequipco.com displays the same fake credentials as bentonfarmequipment.com, greenlineequipmenttexarkana.com, peacemakertractor.com, and bishopandwachholz.com — "Bond Number: CO 13069," "Company Reg#: 20211929794," formation date "10/07/2015," and the templated "Revolutionize your cars & trucks shopping" leftover text. This confirms all five sites are operated by the same fraudulent network. Any heavy equipment dealer website displaying "Bond Number: CO 13069" should be treated as part of this scam network.
thomasequipco.com displays (704) 993-6608 with the 704 Charlotte/NC area code in its main page header, and (817) 747-1001 with the 817 Fort Worth/TX area code in the Linder Industrial Machinery contact block. The two numbers correspond to the two different brand identities the site uses simultaneously. Both numbers have been associated with the heavy equipment scam reported here.
thomasequipco.com claims an address at 2501 Chamberlain Ave, Charlotte, NC 28208 in Mecklenburg County. The address has not been verified as an actual dealer location and may be fake or used to impersonate a legitimate local business — particularly since the site simultaneously uses the Linder Industrial Machinery name without authorization.
support@thomasequipco.com is the contact email listed by both "Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company" and the impersonated "Linder Industrial Machinery" branding on thomasequipco.com. After payment is sent, victims report that support@thomasequipco.com stops responding.
Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and request a chargeback or wire recall. File a complaint with the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov and an FBI internet-fraud complaint at ic3.gov. File consumer-protection complaints with both the North Carolina Attorney General in Raleigh and the Texas Attorney General in Austin (since the site uses both an NC address and a TX phone number). Also notify the real Linder Industrial Machinery so they can take action against the impersonation.
If you found this page by searching Thomas Equipment & Machinery Company, Thomas Equipment Co, Thomas Equipco, thomasequipco.com, Linder Industrial Machinery thomasequipco, 2501 Chamberlain Ave Charlotte NC, (704) 993-6608, (817) 747-1001, support@thomasequipco.com, or Bond Number CO 13069: yes — this website has been reported as an online heavy equipment scam impersonating the real Linder Industrial Machinery and operating as part of a 5-site fraudulent network sharing the same fake bond number, registration, and templated copy with bentonfarmequipment.com, greenlineequipmenttexarkana.com, peacemakertractor.com, and bishopandwachholz.com. A buyer lost $15,000 on a 2021 Kubota SVL95-2S listed at $17,100 on thomasequipco.com.
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