Hi,
I have just been had by this company, first time ever as I thought I was on top of any scam attempts on my business (we get lots).:cry:
This company claim to sell textiles and one of my staff suggested them for an urgent order. Stupidly I failed to do proper background checks and although their bank account name was different to their company name (this is common when dealing with Chinese companies) at first glance all looked fine. I have later found out that the member staff had been spammed directly and not got their details from our standard China trading site. :o
As you can guess the goods failed to turn up and I realised I had been scammed. Upon some detailed investigation I found that the site is hosted in Nigeria.
How in hell’s name they managed to open a BUSINESS bank account with one of the biggest banks in Asia whilst being based in Nigeria is beyond me. One of the safeguards I always used was if it is a recognised world bank and the account was a business account you were fairly safe as the bank’s anti-fraud and money laundering checks would flag such activity. I guess I was wrong.
The scammers details are as follows:
Company: Fortex Weilong Textiles
URL: www.texweilong.com
Emails: sales@texweilong.com, shiyongxin@asia.com
Contact: Xie Cho, Manager, International Sales
Fortex Weilong Textile Industries Co, Ltd
Kingspeedsa Excellence Flying Industrial Centre,
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Zip Code 518109
Tel:+86-574-62685008, Fax +86-574-62674172
Bank Details: BENEFICIARY: EXCELLENCE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD
BANK NAME: BANK OF CHINA (HONGKONG) LIMITED
BANK ACCOUNT: 012-889-9-220763-9
SWIFT: BKCHHKHHXXX
BANK ADD: 1 GARDEN ROAD, HONG KONG, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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I have just been had by this company, first time ever as I thought I was on top of any scam attempts on my business (we get lots).:cry:
This company claim to sell textiles and one of my staff suggested them for an urgent order. Stupidly I failed to do proper background checks and although their bank account name was different to their company name (this is common when dealing with Chinese companies) at first glance all looked fine. I have later found out that the member staff had been spammed directly and not got their details from our standard China trading site. :o
As you can guess the goods failed to turn up and I realised I had been scammed. Upon some detailed investigation I found that the site is hosted in Nigeria.
How in hell’s name they managed to open a BUSINESS bank account with one of the biggest banks in Asia whilst being based in Nigeria is beyond me. One of the safeguards I always used was if it is a recognised world bank and the account was a business account you were fairly safe as the bank’s anti-fraud and money laundering checks would flag such activity. I guess I was wrong.
The scammers details are as follows:
Company: Fortex Weilong Textiles
URL: www.texweilong.com
Emails: sales@texweilong.com, shiyongxin@asia.com
Contact: Xie Cho, Manager, International Sales
Fortex Weilong Textile Industries Co, Ltd
Kingspeedsa Excellence Flying Industrial Centre,
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Zip Code 518109
Tel:+86-574-62685008, Fax +86-574-62674172
Bank Details: BENEFICIARY: EXCELLENCE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD
BANK NAME: BANK OF CHINA (HONGKONG) LIMITED
BANK ACCOUNT: 012-889-9-220763-9
SWIFT: BKCHHKHHXXX
BANK ADD: 1 GARDEN ROAD, HONG KONG, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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