I was trying to purchase Nintendo Wii units from exporters on sites such as tradekey.com and alibaba.com, but almost all of them are scammers and rip-offs that force you to pay first using bank transfers or western union.
Well after being taken once by a chinese company? for $130, I then sent out my buy orders with the stipulation that I wanted to go through a third party escrow company to make payment, well no one wanted to do that except for a company called Resolve Business, that stated in every email that you don't have to pay until after your order is shipped and you get a tracking number.
Good deal right? Not! This company is based in England, and a couple of hours after my order was placed I received an email telling me that my order had been shipped and here is the tracking number. The shipping company was called Global Grey Express? (One of the big ones!), with a web address of (((ROR redacted link for security purposes)))(what!)
When I first clicked on to the site I received server error, (too much traffic!)after trying again it brought up a very nice but small shipping website where I entered my tracking number which brought up all of my shipping information including my shipping status showing my package (no weight shown) was now at JFK Airport in New York (WOW that was quick).
I looked up the website name in the whois listing and it showed that it had been registered on July, 1. When I checked the website for contact information, it had no telephone numbers, just email addresses (remember this is a international shipping company).
I then entered the shipping company name into Google to check for its validity and it had only one real hit which just happened to be from the alibaba.com's forum page, where members were talking about being scammed by a fake shipping company called Global Grey Express.
I then received an urgent email from Darren Steed stating that my product had been shipped and that "Make sure you make payment today via western union to
Richard Thomson 222 Great Homer Street Liverpool L5 3LQ United Kingdom I await your email
Well after my investigation I will not be sending anyone $1700 by Western Union for merchandise that is being shipped by a bogus shipping company. Beware of all Exporting companys that will only take prepayment by bank transfer or Western Union, that will leave them holding your money and you with nothing.
Robert
Glendale, Arizona
U.S.A.
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