Jackie, My heart goes out to you. I got scammed much worse than you. Someone posing as a distributor said they had several customers in China that wanted to place orders for our equipment. They got me to fly out to China and asked me to buy gifts for the president of their company. It turned out to be a scam just to get the gifts - but they were VERY, VERY good at it. When I called the police they came to my hotel room and tried to help but couldn't. They were very nice but also had a good laughed at me. I wasn't laughing at the time, but I can look back now and see that that it was a relatively cheap lesson.
Having said that, we are now doing great business in China and we have lots of good customers. So, because of a few bad apples, don't assume that everyone in China is out to get you. There are reputable companies that supply quality products. Unfortunately, there are also a disproportionate number of scammers looking to make a quick buck. You did the right thing trying to retrieve the wire - that worked for us in another case with a vendor. However, if that didn't work I would say that anything else will require a lot of effort and will likely be fruitless. But, you did the right thing, you posted and made everyone aware of this problem. In the future one thing to do is to check the DNS registration of the website. Go to http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp and type in the website address (without the HTTP). In this particular case you can see the website was registered in September of 2012, which is a good indication that it was set up just to scam people. Likely all of the names and addresses associated with the registration are fake. -Jeremy Jeremy Stevenson, President, Formulatrix, Inc. --------- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:47:04 -0400 From: Jacqueline Vitali <[email protected]> Subject: use only companies that you know to purchase chemicals Dear all, I used the guidechem chemical network to obtain a compound that is not sold in US. Many people responded and I was persuaded to try to buy it from SHANGHAI JIEKE BIOTECHNOLOGY LIMITED COMPANY Adress：NO.1008 Qigangroad,FengXianZone,ShangHai,China Tel ：+86-031-97265503 Fax ：+86-031-97265320 Site ： http://www.jiekechem.com/ My University send the money as they requested the money to be paid in advance. I saw no compound and the person disappeared when she obtained the information of my University. My university requested the wire back but the recipients "cannot be reached" and the bank in China closed the request to return the funds because it could not reach the recipients. Yet the recipients still have an account in this bank. I reported to guidechem and they ignored me. (1) Do not trust companies that you do not know especially in other countries. There are many unreliable places. Do not take a chance like I did. (2) Is there any way to get the money back? The bank information and account are This is our bank information: COMPANY NAME : SHIJIAZHUANG DUNAO CHEMICAL CO., LTD Name: BANK OF CHINA SHIJIAZHUANG ,ZHONGSHAN BR. Address:NO.83WEST ZHONGSHAN ROAD, SHIJIAZHUANG, HEBEI, CHINA Account No.: 100391967084 Swift Code : BKCHCNBJ220 I feel very bad about the whole thing. Can anyone advise how to get the money back? Jackie
