Frauds and Scams

Please take care and ensure that you check out any companies before you part with any money. Some examples of fraudulent or scam emails / letters sent via trade lead sites are shown below.

This is one that I received via alibaba - love the spelling

We just receied your email, and we are interested in your goods, and we are going to buy goods from your company that worth of millions of dollars, the only thing we needed from your company is truthfellness and honest.

Our terms of payment is as follows.

1). We pay through deplomatic means.
2). We pay through cheque or money order.

Please tell us more about your goods and services.

Thanks, we are waiting for your urgent respond.

Ms Mercey Joseph.

Heres another one I received recently -sounded a bit too good to be true -found out that they advertise as gold dust sellers!

Dear Sir,

Herewith is our company profile:

Company  Name: Codson International Benin.

Address :CARRE 443 Akpakpa Surulere, 01 BP 4508, COTONOU BENIN REP. Tel: +229 97075306 Fax: +229 393431.Company registered in the year 1996 under (Foods/Drugs and Allied Products Edict of 1974).

Specialised on :Distribution/Marketing of Edible Food items,Drugs, Import & Export of Consumer Finished Products and our Princpal Partners are: Dr Christain B. Agwu-President, Chief  Bounito Arist- Managing director c.e.o, and Mrs Grace Dikibo Executive Director Finance Admin.& Mr. Peter Simon / comm.manager Staff:  5 Management staffs and 10 workers Company share capital based on the required law of the chamber of commerce Cotonou( 10.000.000.00 CFA)

Company references: Main Supplier to Benin General hospital/Military hospitals, Registered suppliers to the working 4 NGO's in the West African sub- Region, and an award winner in the year 2000 for the best efficient & reliable supplier to the West African Refugee Relief Agency based in  Abidjan-Cote d' Ivoire, Monrovia- Liberia.

We are also an accredited distributor with Lever Brothers PLC, PZ Industries and Green Field Food Proccessing company Cairo-Egypt.I assure you will know us better when we commence business relationship, and hope that our product will meet the required quality by your buyers.

We require your presence, hence there are more demand at hand for this goods to 3 NGO's for the rehabilitation of the emerging refugees in the West African sub-regions to this we are working on T/T 70% payment of the contract value for the commencement of the shipment upon your arrival here and confirmation of the proforma invoice valued amount and the samples of the products is needed by the BIVAC Health Control Benin and the analysis report of the products and raise us your proforma invoice of the order for the FIRST AID KITS WORTH OF USD6.4 MILLION DOLLARS for 18 months contract supply  products CIF cotonou sea port Benin.

We look forward to receiving your urgent good feedback.

Best Regards

Mr. Hever Mike.

If you have any examples of your own please email me