Replying to [Safe Trading Admin]:good views

This story sounds rather familiar. Although I am not a buyer or seller, I am a writing consultant for a freelance writing agency. We were recently contacted by a company who hired us to write a sales/marketing letter for their UK/India-based company. Because the company had several websites, I thought they were legit and completed the job without asking for payment upfront. Prior to completing the job, I received e-mails frequently from this company. Once I forwarded the draft letter to the company for review, I did not hear anything more other than a response to my bill: "We loved the letter. Thank you. Sorry we're behind in payment. Will process it next week." That was October and still no payment.

Do you mind revealing the name of the company who contacted you? Perhaps it is the same one. What recourse do we have? Is there an international authority who can investigate this obviously bogus company?

Replying to [Safe Trading Admin]: i am an exporter importer i had the same encounters uk, togo, coitre de voir or ivory coast, asking the similar thing that they are interested to buy all our products then asking for invitation letter and proforma invoice then when i ask them for a deposit of 35% then no news, the other interesting to note is that they never bargain or question our prices even if it is ridiculously high for some product, and they dont ask the cost of freight taking into consideration the genuine buyer or seller would query the model ,make and quantity of the product
so i assume they are 99.99% FRAUDSTERS

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Some days ago i received a email that ask: "invitation letter for our customer". Exactly they ask me to send an invitation letter for theyr customer to visit my country.. So is a polymorphic way to cheat the immigration? I wanna post this just to warning

Replying to [Safe Trading Admin]: Well, i have a different side to this. I happen to be a genuie buyer from Africa, i sent US$100 to a contact personnel of a company who i intend to buy a machine from, after collecting my money, he stop responding to my e-mails and calls. Can tou immagine that?

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Well yes that is all truth. I have a close contact with a buyer from China which finaly wants to come in Greece, so i sent the invitation letter and the hotel reservation, after few days i receive a call from my embassy in China tells me that, these two gentlemen provides fake documents for there company, and therefor the embassy do not give them the visa
I want to thank the Greek embassy in China
Check and double check every new customer

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thieves, fake http://fjkaishun.en.alibaba.com , http://www.kshoestrade.com
me this firm robbed of 1770USD!!! Sent old used functionless laptop!!! Give at it heed!!!

Replying to [Safe Trading Admin]:
I had the same experience. Someone from China offered me an invitation letter that turned to be a false one. Please be vigilant.

Replying to [Safe Trading Admin]: you are right. i have also come across fraud buyers from benin. i had sent the samples to three buyers there and after receiving the samples they said that my company needs to be registered there for exporting there and told me that they know lawyers who can help me. from the embassy of india i found out that they were all fraud

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I have a potential client from Nigeria, and he wants to send here a technician and a purchase manager, to inspect the machine that we are selling and probabaly to sign a contract for first supply. I still don't know if they are really trustworthy, although I saw their registration certificate and inland revenue service document (tax roll/return), the certificate seems to be fake, but I never saw nigerian certificates before and don't know if I can believe it.

Please, tell me if I can check a buyer somehow else, cause I haven't sent an invitation letter, which is signed by our Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Thank you.