Exporters, Beware of the Scrap Scams

I needed some Scrap material for export. I got replies from a number of companies on Ali BABA. out of the ones that responded, two were from Italy 2-3 from UK, Two from Spain. they all looked very serious with Pictures and some had the documents to show as well. To my horror almost all were fraudulent doing business on other legitimate companies names and using their forged documents. However, asking money to be transferred in some ones personal account rather than company's account. the most obvious indication on such companies is to give you very attractive pricing and push you for sending money through Westren union. give you lot of excuses and reasons not to show the product to you personally. Below is one of them. i will post the rest as well when i get some time:

From: sales@proimexsrl.com [mailto:sales@proimexsrl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 8:35 AM
To: CESI Sales
Subject: Re: FW: Mr sergio max: RE: Inquiry from Compressor Scrap

Dear sir,

Find attached photos of our compressor as requested by you.

Awaiting your reply.

Regards.
Enrique Castro
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Proimex S.R.L.
96, Corso Allamano
Canonico Giuseppe 10098
Rivoli (TO) - ITALY
Tel:+39 0976 476508
Email:info@proimexsrl.com
Website:www.proimexsrl.com



unfortunate for him, he ran into me, i am in export business since past 20 years and have come accross many like him. Anyway, We exchanged many messages for fun, I was skeptical about the information that he was sharing with me so i decided to look at the internet if i could find more about this company. i found the orignial company on whose name this guy was trying to fraud. i sent the message to the president of the company and i got the following reply from the president of the company.


Dear mr MUHAMMAD DAWOOD
Thanks for having contacted us
I am sorry but the email you received doesn’t come from our company. The real company website of Proimex Srl is www.proimex.it and the email you received comes from a man that uses our company licenses in order to persuade buyers to place orders and transfer money to his personal account.
Please do not consider that email as email coming from Proimex Srl.
We will not consider our self responsible for any loss caused by contracts or deals closed with mr Enrique Castro. We have already informed Italian Police Authorities about this matter.
If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact us again
Best regards

Gianluca Balestra
CEO
Proimex Srl
www.proimex.it