Results for fraud case studies: 22

I received a call from a man saying they have agents around the world and have seen our company on Alibaba. He said that we have the kind of products their customers are looking for. They sent me all the information about their business by fax and asked for 7% commission for their services.

"I ordered some metallic laminates from a supplier in China. I ordered 1 FCL of metallic laminates from this company. Before that I had ordered some samples from the company. The samples were very good, so I placed an order and sent the money.

An angry buyer sent an email to the Alibaba service team. They wrote: "A website has your logo on the bottom of their screen. I assumed it was a legit business. I sent USD $800 and received a bad mangled purse while I ordered 9. Are they allowed to have your logo there when they are not legit?"

"I dealt with a new buyer and he placed an order very quickly. Soon after, I received a USD$6,000 cashier's cheque from him; however, the amount of this check was in excess of the purchase price. I was requested to wire the balance back to him.

Mr. Thomas posted his resume on a website. Later, he received a job offer from a European trading company looking for US personnel to intermediate marketing transactions overseas. This company claimed to be a broker company through Alibaba.com.

This company cheated me out of $2000 USD. Our terms were $200 USD for shipping, $1000 USD once the tracking info was verified and the balance of $1460 USD paid once the package was received. This guy said that he was going to use a local courier.

This company offered us a government project for the supply of wooden furniture to a Togo government agency. I even went to Togo to meet the principal and the people from this government department.

was almost robbed by one of the suppliers I contacted! I was contacting a supplier to buy Ipods, and he invited me to visit his city and to meet him in person to pick up the Ipods. It was a good suggestion since my city is not so far away from his city and I can drive to his factory directly to pick up the Ipods.

"I didn't receive the products. The supplier said the goods were detained in the Customs Office because Customs didn't find the original invoice attached to the goods. The supplier explained that it's his company's policy was to issue original invoices only when quantities are above 5 units.