Alibaba doesn’t check the registration information of free members at present. Therefore, you should not believe a free member who claims to be in China or any other place until you verify it. The person making this claim could be based in any country and might merely using China to disguise their true location. E.g. a fraudulent trader may tell you that they are from China but may be from Africa. Check their country and geographical codes.
Some scammers use a forwarding number or a VOIP number to disguise their location. Numbers beginning with the prefix +4470 or +4487 are forwarding numbers that are rarely used by legitimate companies and are not used in China at all.
Numbers can be checked here:
http://www.numberingplans.com//?page=analysis&sub=phonenr
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Re: Re: How to verify a phone listing in China
by cowman on 22 Aug 2007 11:00
Most companies on these B2B websites are scam artist. They have fake addresses and phone numbers. Check to see if their phone and fax number are the same, what's up with that. If they give you a cell phone number, think about this. Do you know of any companies with 50 to 100 employee's and the only way to contact them is through the CEO's cell phone. Why is the CEO of a company the contact person, think about it.
Google one of these big successfull companies names and phone numbers. You'll find that they only exist on the B2B websites, and their phone number is invalid or belongs to some little old lady.
If their contact information is false, report them to the B2B website owners and have them removed, before them scam someone else. I've had about 10 companies remove in the past 3 weeks.
Ask these B2B website owner to implement a rating system like Ebay. Stop the Scammers
Re: How to verify a phone listing in China
by BUMshells on 22 Sep 2007 16:07
Replying to [ResourcesAdmin]:
Great ![[em19]](http://img.alibaba.com/images/eng/style/icon/emoticons_great.gif){kind=icon}
I hardly forgot this possibility, a VOIP number! That would be hard to differ any real land line phone if the VOIP numbers have similar in disguise. Thanks for your info. Umm..how about postal code for your next article maybe ![[em1]](http://img.alibaba.com/images/eng/style/icon/emoticons_smile.gif){kind=icon}