Then 3 weeks later they sent you an envelop with the products & the prices.
After ignoring the materials received for about 3weeks, one morning, its a Wednesday, someone by the name of Mr Liu speaking in broken Mandarin called to say he got to know you are the agent for this filter & he is farming fished on Seletar island. He needs these products urgently. He claims he is from Hongkong the conditions there no good for fish farming.
Upon agreeing on a price, you then called the agent Mr Li from Henan whose name card is on the Brochure.
He said no stock. Have to place order.
Then in a little while he called back & said he can find some from a shipment meant for client in Kedah & if you want some you have to go to Port Dickson to take it off his staff sent there to clear shipment.
The next morning, Thursday, a Mr Chen, claimed to be from Macau, & living in Singapore for more than 7years, called also looking urgently for the same product. So you called Mr Li in Henan & he played you for a while then he said he can give you enough for both orders.
The catch is you have to pay the representative, Mr Zhou, in Malaysia in CASH to get the the goods.
It so happens Mr Zhou manages to clear the goods from Port Dickson that afternoon & Mr Li instructed you to go immediately there or else the whole shipment will be sent to the Kedah client.
However, both your clients promised to pay in full for their orders only on Friday at 5-6pm.
Despite asking continuously for Invoices & packing list, both Mr Li in Henan & his Representative, Mr Zhou, have no idea how heavy is per bundle of the product & the height, breath & width also.
The goods were finally released to you at a fraction of the original price & you were instructed to remit the funds immediately tomorrow morning, which is Friday, the day the clients promised to pay you in full in the evening.
Then Mr Chen called early in the morning saying his cousin needs another 20 units & has already paid cash to him in full. Please look for the goods for him.
Upon contacting Mr Li in Henan, he surprisingly manages to locate some in Shanghai & can ship out by air if you pay in full & add also the air freight charges.
This person refused to remit money to them as he has yet to collect any funds from his clients on the first 2 orders.
Mr Li then called & said if you pay SGD 20,000 which is 20% of the total value of th 3rd order, he will air freight the goods out to you immediately, he will also waive the air freight charges.
His stipulation is that you remit the funds before 2pm that day, (Friday). The bank details of a Mr Xue Gang were supplied fro the remittances. Mr Xue has a Agricultural bank account in Henan as well as another with Industrial commercial bank also in Henan. The ICB one is supposed to be for a Shanghai company who kindly willing to share 20units of stocks with H & H has to pay this one in full as they are sharing the goods they ordered.
But the Greed of the scammers finally reveal their duplicity because both bank accounts are in Henan & not even one from Shanghai. They both belong to the same person too.
Still no official invoices for H to pay for any goods. Just letters stating you have to pay $xx into the 2 different accounts.
Mr Liu was uncontactable by 5.15pm for his 5.30pm appointment!
Mr Chen was contacted at 5.50pm for his 6.30pm appointment. He said he will come over from Pulau Ubin before 7pm. He did not show up by 8pm.
Mr Li's mobile contact was found to be a prepaid line & his credits has been used up.
My Zhou's Malaysia mobile also : Not available message.
All Four are not contactable.
The goods are not worth the prices they quote & thank goodness H didn't pay them in full.
Also didn't pay them again on the Friday at 2pm well before the agreed time for collecting payment for orders from the clients.
H lodged a Police Report immediately that evening. At least one of the team has a name & a bank account or 2 bank accounts to investigate!!
Scammers created an urgency & demand & their timing is perfect.
Their problem is they have no specifications of their products shipping details like packing per unit & size per unit & weight per unit.
The Company also has no Website for you to browse.
The one in Malaysia when contact for location to collect the goods from, can't tell you which part of Port Dickson he is at but can find his way to your forwarders place when you text him in English!!!
The name cards given by the fish farms only states Singapore Ubin Island & the other said lot 8-13. fish farming unit , Seletar Island. No road names at all!!
Beware of these scammers!
This is a true story! I hope sharing with all of you, and hoping all of you will share it all around to stop these scammers from cheating anyone in future.
Amituofo
Lotuschef
TBS
Pure Karma Vihara
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