I have seen many scams through B2B including many China scammers, especially in chemical and electronic industries, and many China scammer is the gold member of Alibaba.com, a victim lost half-million USD one time. There are some ways to avoid being scammed

(This article is provided by China lawyer Yao Jiafeng, [email protected], [email protected] ):

1) When you trade with Chinese company, you can do Due Diligence by internet first. For example, when you make an inquiry with a China company named Hebei Tatinned Chemical CO., LTD, you can search by Google: Hebei Tatin Chemical+ scammer( or scammed, cheater, fraud, swindler and so on) to find if it has a bad name. Sometimes, the scammer can change the name, you can try by Google: Hebei Chemical+ scammer or Hebei + scammer

2)You can demand the list of his clients other than China to check, especially clients in your country. You can distinguish if the its client is in China by CodePhone, the China CodePhone is +86(0086). Maybe this sometimes is not possible as is confidential for the company and their current customers, but still, is a good way to know if you can trust the company.

3)Check your supplier info(adress, tel, Email, web, registered capital, history, certificates and homologations). Your Chinese friends and China lawyer can easily verify these info with Chinese government department in charge and find out the campany is a trader or factory.

4) If the order is big, you had better visit their factory, or send an agent to do it for you. When visiting the factory, you can ask the workers if the man showing you is his colleague so to avoid they show you the others’ factory.
And as lawyer, I can help verify the info with government and visit the factory, I can photo and video it and send to you by internet.

5) If the price is unreasonably low, you must be alert. We know that nothing is free is in this world and when someone is offering you the pricing so cheap then there is some ambuguity and malice involved in it.
Most of Chinese scammers usually entice foreigners with a very low price. If the prices they offered is too low to believe, you may have a further investigation on your partner to know why their prices are so low. Please remember that the price for authentic /original brands like Sony, Apple, Nokia, Dell etc should be almost the same at anywhere on the globe. You cannot import from the unthorized brands distributors with cheaper price in China. They must be selling relicas, refurbished ones or copies of brands etc, or they are just scammer.


6) You can come forward some questions to test, for example: a.) Payment to be made only by 100 % Irrevocable Letter of Credit at SIGHT only . All the serious manufacturers will easily accept this term. However even after this some fraudulent suppliers will accept this term, but 60 % are eliminated by this very first condition. b.) To remove this remainder 40 % of fraud suppliers, we include SGS Inspection at LOADING PORT (remember again to mention loading port only and not at their factory). his inspection includes Random Sampling, Quality Testing, Container Stuffing and Sealing by SGS personnel. This prcedure makes the shipment fraud proof. The fraud suppliers will give you all types of reasons like SGS inspection is very confusing, very difficult, cumbersome etc etc, ... but the moment they start making such reasons, you understand that these suppliers are fraudulent.

7) If unfortunately, you come into the scam, you had better post the story and scammer name on internet to find more victims. At the same time, you had better leave you Email for contacting. If there are several victims, it is obvious it had meant to do this and they have commited the fraud crime. The scammer can be sent to jail. Let lawyer report to police to press scammer to refund.
Foreign lawyers can not engage in lawsuit in China, but if you don’t know a China lawyer well, you can select contingent agent( you charge only after the lawyer get back your money, but rate is higher).

Now a lot of victims was scammed by companies of Hebei(Shijiazhuang), Tianjin, Henan(Zhengzhou, Luohe) when buying chemistry product, if you have the same experiences, you can contact me [email protected], [email protected], +8613676937363, and join the collective action.


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