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.
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Date:Tue, 28 May 2013 12:47:04 -0400
From:Jacqueline Vitali jackie.vit...@gmail.com
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
