At the end of the year, scammers from all walks of life are out to boost sales. Textile foreign trade people are a high-risk group, and even veterans may fall for some scams.
Now I have compiled the eight most complete scams based on the lessons of blood and tears. As long as you are in the textile industry, you must be vigilant!
1. Scam phishing
When all orders are settled and only payment needs to be made. A customer sends you an email saying, has your company changed its account number? At this time, when you check your email, you find that your mailbox has been hacked!
Textile workers must pay attention to their own email accounts and passwords:
(1) Never enter your email account and password in any unofficial place;
(2) Do not click on any links or attachments from unknown sources, including buttons with images such as login click here update now;
(3) Change your email password regularly;
(4) Regular computer anti-virus;
(5) Purchase a corporate email to set up login protection, enable login reminders, and check email login status regularly.
2. Payment on behalf of
After the customer places the order, he gives you a payment that far exceeds the order amount. And it will be remitted one by one. What is even more strange is that the money is not sent from the country where the buyer is located. At this time, the customer will say that they paid too much because they want you to be their Chinese agent. Pay him other suppliers in China.
And you can also earn a commission. How great is this? After all your payment is collected, you can also earn an intermediary fee.
Soon after, a company from the place where the payment was remitted came to you and said that his account had been hacked and his money had been transferred to the account of the unscrupulous seller. He asked you to freeze your account and return the payment.
At this time, you have already remitted money to other Chinese suppliers as requested by the scammer customer.
So the police can only freeze your account and then enter the investigation stage. Do you think you have been taken advantage of? Don’t do it just for the sake of petty gain. Make yourself a rental account.
3. One order is unpaid and another order comes again.
This kind of scam usually involves the buyer consciously leading the exporter into a trap, and ultimately taking the initiative firmly in his own hands.
When a discount or a series of unreasonable demands are made, for example, the payment method required by the buyer is dp, then the first few orders are very trustworthy.
But I know that the other bank will be prompt, but the subsequent payment rhythm will be slower and slower. But our cabinets are shipped one after another. Often the cabinets in front have not arrived yet, and new cabinets have to be shipped here.
Then suddenly he will tell you that there is such a problem with the goods and ask for a discount. If you can’t reach an agreement, just break up. At this time, you are already deeply trapped and can only bear the pain and discount to reduce losses.
Therefore, even if you are an old customer, you must not spoil him.
4. Turkish Scam
Those who work in the Turkish market should pay attention. Turkish Customs has a strange rule. Before the ship arrives at the Turkish port, the freight forwarder urgently needs to register the goods in the name of the consignee. If there are any changes in the future, the original consignee must be obtained. written consent.
The result is that the ownership of the goods has been transferred to the consignee before the goods are actually delivered, regardless of whether the consignee has completed various obligations in its trade contract.
For goods that have been stranded at the port for a long time or that are not picked up by anyone, the customs will handle them as if there is no owner of the goods. The right to auction this item. At this time, the original importer is the first purchaser, which creates conditions for scammers to cheat.
The scammer first registered a Turkish airdrop company, and the company came forward to defraud the goods exported from China to Turkish customs. They deliberately delayed the time and led to the final customs auction. They then bought the goods at a very low price and sold them at a high price to share the stolen goods.
5. Actively request to invest in Sinosure
The customer took the initiative to ask for Sinosure. When we purchased Sinosure, we shipped the goods normally. But what we never expected was that the customer disappeared. When we thought about the insurance, we didn’t completely despair.
After you report the loss to CITIC Insurance, you will not be able to receive normal compensation for this order, because this so-called customer is not the one who approved the limit through CITIC Insurance’s investigation. He just used the name of this company. Forged documents, seals and identities of employees to defraud exporters into allowing them to release goods on credit.
Please note that the commercial credit risk covered by Sinosure is not the risk of commercial fraud. Be wary of buyers who make you worry about investing in Sinosure. Once a buyer says so, please check his email immediately.
Whether it is the business email of the party who signed the contract, his delivery address, and whether it is the address of the party who signed the contract.
6. Certification scam
This kind of consignment is usually sent through testing and certification. When buyers negotiate orders, they are usually very generous, but they will emphasize that the quality requirements of the products are very high.
You must go to their designated certification agency for testing or certification. Of course, the cost needs to be borne by the exporter. Customers will also tell you that if you don’t do the certification, we can’t continue this order.
So it is very likely that many tradersIf you choose to believe it and send the money to the certification agency first, although this kind of loss is relatively small compared to the previous ones, it also wastes the time and money of foreign traders.
7. The scam of fake water bills
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, although old customers are still placing orders, their payments have become less and less timely, and they often have to send reminders and requests every time. After urging too much, the customer simply handed over a bill. However, after the company’s financial audit, it was found that the payment for the goods had not been received. The customer said that it was a problem with the bank, while the seller insisted that the goods would not be shipped until the payment was received.
In the end, the customer sent a new bill and the payment arrived at the same time. Is this a problem with the bank or the customer?
I would like to remind everyone that the payment slips in many countries cannot be judged to be genuine or fake on the surface. After getting the payment slip, first check whether your account name is consistent with the account number. If the payment has not been received after a period of time, verify the payment. The simplest and most effective way to verify the authenticity of the order is to ask our bank to check with the clearing bank. Generally, there is no charge for regular cooperation with your bank.
If a foreign trade person is worried that questioning a customer will arouse the customer’s resentment, he might as well use finance as an excuse to indicate that the finance department must confirm the receipt of the account before he can sign and release the goods. In this way, the relationship between the salesman and the customer will not be affected.
8. Letter of credit scam
Friends who work in the Bangladeshi market know that letter of credit is an unavoidable hurdle, but there are two types of letters of credit in this world, one is the letter of credit, and the other is the Bangladesh letter of credit. The credit of some of their banks is really It’s a mess.
Under various illegal operations, it is the buyer who has the final say whether to release the loan. The bank colludes with the buyer to delay the payment time or release the order without the customer completing the payment procedures when there are no incompatible creditors.
After the customer picks up the goods or inspects the goods, he makes a quality claim to the exporter, forcing the exporter to reduce the price, resulting in economic losses. Therefore, when placing a letter of credit order, be sure to review the letter of credit to ensure that there are no discrepancies.
Or when discrepancies are found, they must be corrected before delivery. Especially the delivery time makes it consistent with the provisions of the letter of credit. Even if the customer proposes to accept delivery of documents with discrepancies, it cannot be accepted. Insist on making corrections before shipping. In addition, you need to allow sufficient time for delivery and delivery of documents.
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