Brown Co. Sheriff Press Release
The purpose of the media release is to prevent people from being scammed by the fictitious ALT Family Farm website, while understanding that there is a legitimate ALT Family Farm operating in Evan, Minnesota. The scammers are fraudulently using the ALT Family Farm name and images of a farm in the Netherlands on their fictitious ALT Family Farm website.
Online SCAM – FRAUD – ALT Family Farm, Evan, Minnesota
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a fake ALT Family Farm www.altfamilyfarm.com website which is advertising heavy construction machinery for sale out of Evan, Minnesota. The entire website is fictitious and none of the pictures on the website exist in Brown County, Minnesota. The suspects behind the fraudulent website tell potential customers to make payments through wireless transfer. Customers who try and make an appointment to look at the machinery are eventually unable to make contact with the suspects any longer.
While the ALT Family Farms www.altfamilyfarm.com website may look legit, it is a SCAM. There are even videos on YouTube promoting the fictitious ALT Family Farm website. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office has received reports from across the United States inquiring about the validity of ALT Family Farm. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota is naming this fraudulent web site specifically hoping that individuals attempting to check on the validity of ALT Family Farm will realize that it is a scam.
Make sure that you do your due diligence in verifying the credibility of a business and do not send money using wireless money transfers.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota is working with the Minnesota Department of Commerce to close the fictitious ALT Family Farm website www.altfamilyfarm.com down.
If you have any information regarding this site, please contact the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota Investigator Andrew Konechne at 507-233-6716.