Were you as well scammed by www.coosource.com ? or JianYong Lin from China?

Question

Website was found offering Tomtom GPS and other electronic products with discounted wholesale price, and with free shipping if total purchase was more than $412. Money was transferred via Western Union to these details: Receiver's Tel. No. 8615280414162 Expected Payout Location: Fuzhou, China (when I followed up payment with W.Union they said it was collected at Putian, China at 21:16 ET, same day of Sept 03, 2011 when I transferred it) Sender was as well giving Wired Transfer as another mode of payment, with details as: Acct Name: JianYong Lin Acct No.: 6013821600605399410 Acct No.: 6013821600605399410 Bank Name: Bank of China, FuZhou Branch Bank Address: 136 Wusi Road, Fuzhou 350003, Fujian Prov., China SWIFT Code: BKCHCNBJ720 Since receiving the money, they never replied to my e-mailed follow-ups, even their online chat won't allow me to enter (as probably identified by my email log-in).

Answer 1

You've managed to ignore all of the warning signs.



When you encounter a site with deals that seem too good to be true, that's a warning sign that indicates that you need to do some research. Start with a domain ownership "whois" search. I usually start with Network Solutions. They will either have the registration information or refer you to the registrar that does. In this case the registrar is GoDaddy so they will have the information.



It turns out that the site is less than 2 months old, has only a one year registration, and is located in China. All are warning signs.



Western Union, Moneygram, and wire transfers are the equivalent of sending cash with no recourse if something goes wrong. They are used when you need to quickly transfer money to someone you know. They are also the favorite payment methods of scammers.



Many warning signs coupled with a non secure payment method is a red flag.



Registrant: (not guaranteed to be accurate)

meisong zhang

#29, Hongli West Road

Shenzhen, Guangdong 518109

China



Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)

Domain Name: COOSOURCE.COM

Created on: 14-Jul-11

Expires on: 14-Jul-12

Last Updated on: 14-Jul-11



Administrative Contact:

zhang, meisong [e-mail]

#29, Hongli West Road

Shenzhen, Guangdong 518109

China

+86.13828833722



Technical Contact:

zhang, meisong [e-mail]

#29, Hongli West Road

Shenzhen, Guangdong 518109

China

+86.13828833722



Don

Answer 2

100% scam.



That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.



Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes.



The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all.



The payment options say it all, Western Union and moneygram. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, only anonymous cash payments.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese?



The UPS, TNT and DHL icons are there only to take up space, that site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere.



You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information.



Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.

Answer 3

Thank you very much i was trying to ask questions through email and i got no answer this is very helpful

i too wanted to do order product from these people but it didn't add up i was trying to start drop shipping but it seems people don't have product that i want to sell then there they were the product when i emailed signed up etc. nothing lucky i didn't sent money to them i would have been @$$ out so thank you for your info hope things go well with you, and i find a wholesaler that i can trust you have a nice day

Answer 4

Yep. You fell for a scam. Like I did. The chances of getting your money back from this scam artist is less than zero. But I did figure out a way to reclaim the money I lost. Send me an email for more info (I don't want to look like I'm advertising here) and I'll send you a fraud guide that should help.