Israel’s News Blog Magazine: Daily Stories Video and PhotosOnce in a while you come across some cute Internet scams, this is one I call The Visit To China, Buying Center Scam.
This is the Chinese latest scam online and its geared towards small and medium businesses. The idea is simple. You approach a business as a Buying Center in the city of Guilin, China (apparently the new Lagos, Nigeria), and you claim to be interested in a large test order of anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000. You provide a URL and full contact information so this looks half decent. Of course the greed kicks in and you ignore some obvious signs; like the fact that the person writing you is using a Hotmail account and that the email addresses on the site are also Hotmail. The fact that this is a Chinese company buying products for thousands of dollars without even negotiating on the terms. They agree to wire the money and provide a Letter of Credit and everything. AND….here is the catch. You need to come to China to sign the big, fat contract.
Now people that have actually gone (and many have), find that while they are there, they get the hotel arrangement and city tours all arranged by the “company” (for a commission no doubt). Also, they ask the seller to buy a gift for the CEO of the company (apparently an “old Chinese custom”) and the gift is normally $5,000-10,000. Of course the hosts are gracious and nice the whole time. Then the signing happens and the happy seller goes home and that’s it. He never hears from them again.
I was told that this is a capital offence in China and I just hope the authorities catch these people and provide them with their just reward. I think that encouraging tourism is nice but there must be better ways.
To the “business owners” - If something looks to good to be true - IT IS !!
Here are some of the names and contact details these companies operate under:
Sa Yuweixing
Email: youlianhuance@hotmail.com
Guilinyoulianshiye Co. LTD
F 0086-773-5850161
P +8613768744644
Purchase center
Second floor 48 dong Luandong district,
No.10kongmingxi Road
Guilin Guangxi China 541004
www.chinaglyl.com
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GuiLin ShengJing (International) Investment
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Guilin Shengjing International Investment Co.
Room 418 ,Nancheng Shopping Mall
26 Lijiang Rd.,Qixing District,
Guilin 541004
P.R.China
Tele : 0086-7735815366
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14 Comments
I still remember the Nigerian crooks with their faxes sent to every
business, offering great fortunes,it looks like the Chinese are
becoming the champions in everything including scams.
Confucious says:
“He who buys fish that lay too long in sun - get fishey smell
that won’t go away even if you wash hands in rose water.”
Chinese copy everything - even how to screw you!
Dear all,
I would like to thank you for those precious info about Guilin youlianshiye Co. LTD.
I have been contacted by Fiona Wang from this scam company recently. They were supposed to look for a huge volume of French wines for their channels. To be honnest, they had not even try to negociate a price and wanted to order the whole range of my wines without even tasting it! My insurance comapny had never heard about them and that is why I did some research on the net.
I feel sorry for all honnest chinese people because with company like Guilin youlianshiye Co. LTD, nobody will trust anymore China and this country will certainly face a huge crisis after the Olympic Games.
Thanks again,
Regis
Thank you for this website that now I’m aware of the on going scam that made by China and Nigeria.
Venice
Philippine Century Furniture Products INc.
There are many scam companies in Guilin, all using the “come to China to sign the contract” scam. Look out for the following as well;
Guilin or Guangxi Union
Lyon International also trading under the name Liang Touzi
Guilin Kangyuan
They start up new companies everytime the old ones gets exposed, so beware of anything from Guilin, the cahnces are it is not genuine, and whatever you do don’t go there, it will be a waste of time and money.
Just type in Guilin scam companies into Google and follow all of the threads, it make interesting reading, and hopefully will prevent some people from being duped into going there.
Just want to let you know all written up there is true. I was approached by this company sometime ago. I thought this is a scam from start so I ignored the email. However they kept coming so I thought lets check those people who they really are.
I have hired an audit company called Vtrust for mare 600USD to check them out. HAHA this was great they wne in made many photos of the place talked to the people working there and all looked perfect. Their only sugestion was to recieve 100% prepaymnet before sending my stock. Accualy the report looked good !!! Well I cant blame them they did their job right. So here we go I start to think those people are maybe a bit unexperianced but they are there and want to trade so why not. After all some cultural diffrencess are not alwasy well preceived and this might have been one of them. I got my ickets for me and my assitant and was about to leave in 2 days when i found those comments and some others on alibaba. This was like a blow to my head. I thought u silly you havent done your homework properly and you will lose 50% of the plane ticket fare now. Well once you get in contact with those people you will know those comments are right and all people wrothe here is 100% true it opens your eyes qite fast. I think people should help each other and post info like this as much as possible so thank you to people who started it you saved me some pocket money. Cheers
Just doing some research into a company after receiving an e-mail from them asking for me to quote for my services, I of course replied but it def looks like a scam of some sort but I could not work out what until I read this thread.
Getting companies to go to China seems like a reasonable thing to do but with each e-mail it was obvious they were not negotiating in fact they even wanted to pay for 12 months services up front.
Any company with half a brain would know thats just not done in any country, especially as it was them who suggested it. If they had been more business business wise I might have thought twice so its back to the same old saying if its to good to be true it probably is.
Anyone ever heard of these guys ?
China Shenyang Lofty ambition-Asia Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd
Dear Sirs and Madams,
Our Company is a Commercial Collective division rewarding corporative qualification in Shenyang. Now we have a training inquiry. Through the Internet we know you’re powered parachute training Center and can supply the service we need. We consult your Center that we organize 300 persons to oversea to have powered parachute trainin this year.
The following cooperate items will be emailed to your Company. In order to negotiate it please calculate it seriously. They are all beginners and they are all very looking forward to flying in the sky, close to nature, feel breathtaking and adventure trip. All our people hope to attend the training which can obtain certificates, they hope through training, they can solo flight and they are also very favourable to flight several times. Their ages are between 20 and 40 years old, their weights are between 40kg and 90kg. They are all come from China, they don’t speak English, we can provide one interpreter for each three students to assist instructor to take training.
1. If you can accept this inquiry, please inform us how many days do you need to attend such training for each person?
2. How much will need for each person?
3. We hope you can provide accommodation for them (3 stars hotel or other Inn with equal condition, you can arrange 2-4 people in each room).
4. How many people can you train each week or each month?
5. Can you provide transport from Airport to your training area and to hotel? Please quote us price with EURO, USD format that including eating, accommodation, transportation and training fee.
We hope that if you can accept this inquiry, please inform us the Competitive Price, Facility Address, Contact Phone, Contact Person, Mobile Phone Number to our Company as soon as possible, in order to have a good decision-making, if there is another un-detailed question, we will solve further in the Contract and discuss face to face.
We are looking forward to have a successful cooperation!
Linkman: Chenghao Xu
Tel: 0086-24-82044698
Fax: 0086-24-82044698
Mobile: 0086-13478847904
E-mail: sylaaiet@yahoo.com.cn
Website: http://www.syhywy.cn
Company E-mail: webmaster@syhywy.cn
Add: North Section Heping Road, Shenyang City
Post Code: 110000
Oh we’ve heard of the Lofty Ambition Of China. Ignore their email like you would any other spam.
RUN AWAY FAST FROM THESE PHONEE SCAM PEOPLE
We talked with the Lofty Ambition Of China as well. Contact person is different but address and phone numer is the same. They studied our website and approached us quite professionaly. After receiving our quote, they accepted our offer and invited us to China for singing contract. oh oh. I still think they might be serious
OH WILL YOU BE SORRY YOU EVER ANSWERED THEM EMAIL
Ok Chaps i was caught by them.
I even met the people.
What i cant understand is what do they make in this deal. The only money i was out by was my trip to China and my hotel i stayed in. I cant see where they make money.
I paid the air tickets and hotel but nothing to them. The excuse they used to not see me and sign the final contract was the Earthquake had damaged one of there buildings.
I have since flown back and have had no contact with them.
They even collected me from the airport and took me to my Hotel at 12:30am. From that time i had no further contact. I decided not to leave my room and wait for them to collect me for the contract signing. I was wondering if it is not a ploy to get your there and if you leave your room they would steal you blind by having access to your room.
Irecived zhe same stupid story in Germany from:
Linkman: Chenghao Xu
Tel: 0086-24-82044698 Tel: 0086-24-82044698
Fax: 0086-24-82044698 Fax: 0086-24-82044698
Mobile: 0086-13478847904 Handy: 0086-13478847904
E-mail: sylaaiet@yahoo.com.cn E-Mail: sylaaiet@yahoo.com.cn
Website: http://www.syhywy.cn Website: http://www.syhywy.cn
Company E-mail: webmaster@syhywy.cn Firma E-Mail: webmaster@syhywy.cn
Add: North Section Heping Road, Shenyang City Hinzufügen: Nord-Abschnitt Heping Road, Shenyang City
Post Code: 110000 Post Code: 110000
Tony, an international investigation is well under way. Please watch this site and I will give an update. I will also give you my contact information soon
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