Its important to identify a #scammer in #foreign trade or in #exports and #imports ; as it could spoil your reputations and time money or both
Important Checklist ;
1) Sending inquiry from webmail like yahoo / gmail etc. Such emails could be created by anyone and anywhere without credential verification.
Insist on company Email for commercial inquiry. If someone can't afford an official Email account ; it seems he doesn't have a company at all .
2) Very lofty statement and big volume which is not real . I have got an inquiry ; where buyer wants 36 Millions MT of sugars every year from Brazil . You could read easily its scam; as entire country export that volume ! and one buyer wants that ? how practically that possible ?
3) Insist on a bank statement copy of the importer ; where you can read what type of transactions they made in past 6 months and financial capability that buyer has . This is a relatively low risk document what a real buyer doesn't hesitate to show
4) Verify usage of languages in LOI ; big errors in writings, grammatical, spelling, name of ports etc. ; easily could raise alarms that the buyer has no professional competence
5) Asking some products which the buying country doesn't use or beyond their consumption limit ; could raise the doubt
6) Using a bank name ; which is not listed anywhere globally ; another alarm bell
Few such basic checklist could minimize trade risk and save time ..
Hashtag your posts
Love to #hashtag? Good news!
You can add tags (#vacation #dream #summer) throughout your posts to reach more people. Why hashtag? People can use your hashtags to search through content on your blog and find the content that matters to them. So go ahead and #hashtag away!