In addition to various foreign scammers, there are also many domestic scams, and most trading companies and factory foreign trade salesmen have encountered them. For example, a typical case:
A “industrial and trade company” sent a fax and called to claim that they have a product and want you to be an agent. Soon they sent free samples and price lists. You don’t need to pay agency fees and initial investment at all. You can earn the difference after finding customers – they even claim to advertise for you for free. Everything seems risk-free because you have not spent anything so far. After some time, a “military enterprise” will call and ask to buy this product. After some bargaining, an agreement is reached. There is no problem in contacting the “industrial and trade company” again. It seems that a difference in price is within reach. Sometimes the “military enterprise” will even pay a deposit in advance. With the deposit in hand, many victims lose their vigilance. At this time, the “military enterprise” requires urgent delivery, and the “industrial and trade company” says that there is a batch of goods shipped to a city near the victim, which can be transferred, but requires face-to-face inspection and payment. The “military enterprise” naturally sends people to cooperate. During the handover, the “military enterprise” left under the pretext of processing payment after “checking the goods”. The driver of the “industrial and trade company” rushed to another delivery to urge payment. After the victim paid, the scammers disappeared together. The victim bought a bunch of useless goods at a high price.
In addition, the scammers will “act according to the situation” according to the victim’s reaction, or change their tactics, or use bad checks or fake checks to play with the time difference, etc.
In addition, it is more common that a “state-owned enterprise” orders hundreds of thousands of yuan of goods from you at once, but requires you to go to the local area for an interview. After the meeting, they ask you to treat them to a meal, give them gifts, and take care of their superiors. After a meal, there is no news. Even worse, there are even kidnapping, seduction and blackmail.
In addition, under the guise of “international project investment”, they promise to inject hundreds of thousands of dollars into your capital and ask you to produce a “compliant” full-English project feasibility report. This is quite difficult for many companies that are in urgent need of funds but lack foreign language talents. Even if you ask a translation company to help, you will be criticized for various reasons. Then they reveal their true colors and ask you to pay thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan for “project report fees.”