We have checked out dozens of Chinese companies for friends worldwide this year. Some of the companies, even the Gold members of Alibaba turned out to be a business scammer in China. Your business cannot legally protected by Chinese government authorities if you're dealing with illegal Chinese companies. Hence, it's very important to verify your business partner as there are more and more business frauds coming forth in China. Here are my tips for you to verify a Chinese company:

Generally speaking, there are some links online for you to check out companies in China:
www.yp.net.cn
www.chinaeall.com
www.cnaic.org.cn
www.114win.com
etc
However, there is no English version of above services so far in China, you have to know a little Chinese to check it all by yourself. Also some of the companies did not register themselves with above yellow pages. So yellow page is not the key way to judge a business scammer in China! The best way to check out a supplier in China is to visit them in person or check them out with local government authorities in China.

If you don't know Chinese, still you can pre-verify your business partners from following aspects:

1. Contact information
Please note that whether their contact information is right or not, most of the scammers don't offer a right address, tel and fax number online. Some of the tel numbers are empty and some add and tel don't exist at all, they don't offer a company tel number, a private number or mobile phone number instead.

2. Registered corporate number
Every legal company in China has to register itself with Chinese government authortities and obtain an unique company number. If your business partner cannot offer you a unique registered corporate number, definitely he is a scammer, of course, he may submit you a fake number, so you have to check it out with local administrative government organs with the number he offered. There is a Chinese organ called Bureau of Industry & Commerce ( have branches at all levels ), which is the only government organ responsible for the registration of legitimate companies or enterprises in China. For example, for any legitimate companies from Changsha or Hunan province, you can contact the local administrative organ for confirmation: http://www.csaic.gov.cn/ Tel: 86-731-2891606 or http://www.hunancom.gov.cn/ Tel: 86-731-2287058 , the problem is you have to report your case in Chinese sometimes because most of the local officials do not know too much English in China.

3. Incredibly low prices, esp for international brands
Most of Chinese scammers usually entice foreigners with a very low price. If the prices they offered is too low to believe, you may have a further investigation on your partner to know why their prices are so low. Most of the scammers in China profit a lot by selling replicas or fakes of some branded goods to the overseas market, this is very risky because the goods shall be confiscated or detained by Chinese customs houses in case it considered illegal in China. By the way, please remember that the price for authentic /original brands like Sony, Apple, Nokia, Dell etc should be almost the same at anywhere on the globe. You cannot import from the unthorized brands distributors with cheaper price in China. They must be selling relicas, refurbished ones or copies of brands etc ! Please simply forget such suppliers in China !

4. Payment and shipment terms
The scammers never accept L/C as their payment terms, they prefer Western Union, Paypal and T/T etc. Also they never deliver goods through formal channels in China, they prefer to deliver samples by Express like Fedex, TNT, EMS to avoid more examinations from Chinese customs house. Most of the scammers use Private Bank Accounts in China!

5. Warranty and after sale services
Scammers never take some measures to guarantee their quality and after-sale services after your payment, they may promise you a lot before payment. It's lip-services only!!!

Be careful with some of the Chinese suppliers!
By the way, I have to mention that, it does not mean the manufacturer has the right to sell or buy in case he has obtained a legitimate unique company number from local BIC in China. In China, all the enterprises with the right to import and export has to apply and obtain a certificate called Certificate of Import & Export from Ministry of Commerce of PRC and its authorized local organs in China after their registration at local BIC. Also a formal trade company has to register with Chinese Customs House and its branches before his formal business with foreign counterparts in China. Then he has to register himself with local Bureau of Inspection & Quarantine in case his products are in need of quality control. Without the registration from above local government authorities from China, no company can deal with you in formal channels in China. Contact me for details when you need verification and other business services in China.

Hongkong NFS Electronic Co.,LTD

Room 3012,Huaxiang Building,Futian District

Shenzhen, Guangdong

TEL:86 159 9483 7689

MSN:sznfs2009@hotmail.com


i was going to buy from them.... CAN YOU PLEASE VERIFY???   my email  ignas@balticdekor.lt

Hi all,


we need help verifying the following company:


http://www.alkpaper.com

Company Name :	Alk paper products co.,ltd
Company Address :	5,6 Building BiLing Industrial Area, PingShan Town LongGang, ShenZhen
ZIP/Postal code :	518036
Phone :	86-755-83185542
Company Fax :	86-755-83073404

We are going to order paper cups from them next week already and we still do not know, if they are trustworthy.


PLEASE help us.


Best regards

hi YulinYuan
 I  have a little business  and i would like some of your services , Mr YulinYuan do you have a e mail where i can contact you?

 

I am dealing with a company right now called top trade international trading co ltd.,   email   goldline88@hotmail.com

They gave me the business license number 440306103435428,.,.,i also just saw above that somebody else has used this same number under another comkpany name.is there anyway to know for sure which company is lieing?

Is anyone else dealing with them or have dealt with them

phone number,.,.,86-592-2366868

no. 105 zhongshan road, siming distric,   xiamen, fujian city province,china mainland    zip code 36100

Hello! can you help me verify this company:
Guangzhou Fenteng Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd.

Please write me on my email: info@gltech.ru

Hi, would you be able to help verify a company for me?

The details are

Contact Person:	Mr. long Zoro (Business Development Manager)
Company:	Ubingle International Trade Co., Ltd.
Address:	www.ubingle.com, www.ubingle.com, www.ubingle.com, China
Zip/Postal:	www.ubingle.com
Telephone:	86-021-663617751
Fax:	86-021-663617751
Mobile:	86-663617751

Banking details are

Beneficiary's Name:

First Name: Wei

Last Name: You


Beneficiary's Bank:

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Shanghai Branch


Bank's Address:

HSBC Tower 1000 Lujiazui Ring Road Pudong Shanghai 200120 China 


Beneficiary's Address:

1000.North ZhongShan Road, Shanghai 200000 China


SWIFT CODE:

HSBC CNSH


Beneficiary's Account Number:

100-093475-406

Hoping you can help, thank you in advance

Sorry first time ever doing a post!  Further information is

Ubingle International Trade Co., Ltd.

[China]

Address:

Quyang Road No 800, ShangHai, ShangHai, China, shanghai, Shanghai

China

Phone:

86-021-1344-1223

86-021-9688-3889 (direct)

Looking for verication of company, thanking you

Anybody can verify if this Company is genuine company? Suzhou Beierda Trade Co. Ltd, No. 22 (1/2), Huxiangsi Lane, Suzhou, Jiangsu, Province China 21500 Tel: 86-512 60791829 Fax: 86-512 60716987 Mobile: 015-206204951 Gold Supplier in Alibaba for 1 year Verified Supplier by  ZDInfo, A&V Liability Disclaimer Please verify for me. I already cheated by other company Scared to repeat again Thanks

Please advise me, this co send the sample to me already. and provide me the company registration certificate (by email), but for the payment time, they request me to send via western union, the reason is because is my order is not much (about few hundred USD), do you think this is ok?

Hi

I will be so glad if somebody can tell me about the status verification and certification of  the next "company"

One Up Electronics Trade Co. Ltd

Company Name:	One-up Electronics Trade Co., Ltd
Contact Person:	Cherry   (Your message will be sent to the supplier directly)
Address:	Rm3012,Chuntian Build,Haidian District, , Beijing, China
Zip:	100050
Telephone:	86-151-6048-0814
Fax:
Web Site:	http://oneup.en.ecplaza.net

 

 

it is very important to make trustworhty and relible bussines.

 

Best Regards

Hemmer