Do African Business: Don'T Be Tempted By False Orders.

The website of the Chinese Embassy in Cameroon published 25 such information: remind Chinese companies not to be tempted by orders from certain Cameroon companies.

The article said that the business office has recently received frequent requests from domestic enterprises to investigate the creditworthiness and authenticity of a company in Cameroon.

Our newspaper reporter found that Cameroon and some other African countries do have lawless elements to seize the psychology of Chinese enterprises eager to do business with foreign countries, and cheat the Chinese enterprises' deposits or samples with the specially attractive false orders of price and volume.

How did these lawless elements deceive Chinese enterprises?

The staff of the business office in the embassy opened a public mailbox for the reporters, and selected a typical case in the headlines of "help", "trade investigation application", "trouble checking the existence of the company".

The sender is a shareholder of an export production enterprise in Ningbo, Zhejiang. They told the business office staff in the mail: "we have recently discussed the export business of a batch of cotton T T-shirts with the XXX company of Cameroon, and provided 21 samples and 3 specifications for the other party free of charge. The other party provided the contract signing number and asked us to pay 1250 US dollars for FCCC certification."

Several shareholders have asked my Embassy in Cameroon to help investigate whether there is such a company in Cameroon. Does it really need FCCC certification to export products to Hong Kong?

My business office quickly verified that the so-called FCCC certificate was completely false. The Ningbo company immediately sought the theory of Cameroon company. The latter replied in an email: "the Chinese embassy is shocking.

It is impossible for any bank in Cameroon to remit money to your account if you do not produce this evidence.

Listen, my friend, our company has invested $8500 in bidding and registration for this business. Let's not lose this opportunity.

As soon as possible, I will remit the certificate fee. Believe me, the bank will get the certificate to remit the contract when it gets the proof. "

Over the past year, the business office has received similar help from domestic enterprises. Over the past half month, the frequency of such telephones, facsimile and e-mail has reached 5 to 6 times a day, according to the staff of the business office.

A company in Zhuhai said that a company in Cameroon indicated that they wanted to order 900 thousand sweaters. A Shanghai food company said that a company in Cameroon said it needed 5 million cans of canned fish. The survey found that these were false orders.

Even more annoying and ridiculous, a company in Shandong received a sample of "Cameroon soybean oil" sent by a Cameroon company. In fact, Cameroon did not produce beans at all, nor did soybean oil processing enterprises.

It is understood that in addition to Cameroon, some other African countries have also received similar complaints or appeals, but the number of cases has not been counted, and the real nationality and specific identities of the criminals are hard to confirm.

In fact, it is not difficult to generality of such swindlers: they have a certain grasp of China's market demand and Chinese businessmen's psychology, and make use of the psychology of Chinese enterprises eager to do business in Africa, and publish false purchase information through the Internet, attracting Chinese enterprises with "big demand, low price, large demand" or "quality and cheap supply". After the price is negotiated, they require Chinese enterprises to deposit deposits or provide samples. Once Chinese enterprises suspect that they will start investigating their details, they will disappear.

The starting targets of such swindlers are hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars in deposits and some samples. Some Chinese enterprises have eaten all kinds of dumb losses, unable to trace them.

Of course, if a Chinese enterprise is eager to get a deal, the cheater may continue to make up such a fee, and the Chinese enterprises with low vigilance will provide them with further gains.

The staff of the business office of the Embassy in China said that as long as Chinese enterprises provide accurate clues, the business department will immediately help investigate and verify. Suspect firms will hang up the phone when the Chinese embassy is heard. Some phone numbers do not even exist at all, or have been cancelled.

Therefore, the staff of the business office reminded Chinese enterprises that because of geographical restrictions or purchasing power and other reasons, the average order volume of African countries is not large. If the order quantity is alarming, Chinese enterprises should be seriously investigated and verified so as not to be fooled.

That is to say, if a single African business is too lucky and too easy to talk about, it must be a lot of mind.