by Tekle Sebhatu
Question:
I have numerous contacts to represent companies from China or England wanting me to collect from and/or service their existing customers with customer service and payment collections. I can see the need for such companies, but I want to make sure they are legitimate and that I not getting scammed or laundering illegal money.
Answer:
While it is difficult to generalize that all companies that ask for help to collect funds are scammers, you certainly want to make sure that you don’t fall into their trap. If it is a scam at one point you will be asked to advance money until funds are collected from the buyer or they might pull some trick on you to advance funds, the money that you will never see.
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Re: Is it a real payment collection or a scam?
by SherAliKhan on 26 Jun 2007 13:56
Replying to [Resources]: It is a scam, because many companies from China & UK contacted me to be their payment collection agent, but they require 1000$usd fee & then they are out of the contact. This is 100% scam. Do not bother to be anyone,s agent.
Re: Is it a real payment collection or a scam?
by BUMshells on 23 Sep 2007 07:33
Replying to [Resources]:
I think this type of scam is ridiculous. And would be even more outrageously if there were people got fooled by this trick. How can someone just trust a guy from unknown origin asking you to collect money from other guy which also from unknown. It must be the "greeds" that blind those who will. But surely not me.
You might know whether this guy is a scammer by the contact data. though it seems true but there is always something odd. As their trick, Their e-mail addresses sometimes from non-free email provider. and this will supporting their lies. A sincere business person mostly using their real last name on as the email address. but not for scammers. usually they add numbers on it.
I have read a story from other an old guy that successfully able to catch the crook. First he get scammed, he send some part of the money to the scammer. But seems that the scammer feel not enough so he visit the old guy to ask the rest. But the old guy knows he already become a victim then he called the police. The scammer get busted by the police right when he arrived at the old guy's house.
The old guy seems more clever then the scammer ![[em2]](http://img.alibaba.com/images/eng/style/icon/emoticons_laugh.gif){kind=icon}
by the way. the scammer is from African country.
Re: Is it a real payment collection or a scam?
by CCMR on 19 Apr 2008 22:10
Quoting from [Resources]:by Tekle Sebhatu
Question:
I have numerous contacts to represent companies from China or England wanting me to collect from and/or service their existing customers with customer service and payment collections. I can see the need for such companies, but I want to make sure they are legitimate and that I not getting scammed or laundering illegal money.
Answer:
While it is difficult to generalize that all companies that ask for help to collect funds are scammers, you certainly want to make sure that you don’t fall into their trap. If it is a scam at one point you will be asked to advance money until funds are collected from the buyer or they might pull some trick on you to advance funds, the money that you will never see.
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If at anytimg they ask for information about your bank such as your banking account number or routing number back away as this is a scam. If for any reason they ask you to put up any front money then it is a scam. My sister-in-law answered one of these letters and before long had a policeman knocking on her door. She was lucky as she didn't send them any money nor allow them to have any information regarding their bank account. If they seeking someone to collect payments for them have them put some kind of a security deposit upfront to you. I had one company wanting me to collect payment for them. I wrote them back that if they put up a $25,000 security deposit I would open a bank account for this purpose and they could draw out up to the $25,000 and then replace it before any more could be transferred to their account. I never did get a reply back.
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