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By Star Chang, posted Feb 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM, 1,385 views,

How Chinese Fraudulent Companies Cheated Overseas Buyers (video)

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba.com, will be facing the issue of integrity.

This week, China’s largest e-commerce website, Alibaba.com, has disclosed widespread fraud on its online marketplace. The fraud often involved the sale of popular consumer electronics products. Western buyers were duped into doing business with fraudulent companies, paying for goods they didn’t receive. We have gathered some interesting cases from YouTube, check out the videos after the break…

Case 1: Ordered a Nikon D90 DSLR camera, but received a fake ROLEX watch…

Case 2: Ordered a Samsung TV, with free 3D glasses and Blu-ray player, but only received a piece of T-shirt…

Case 3: A Chinese fraudulent company shows a real Apple iPad in their storefronts, but selling an iPad knock-off instead…

Case 4: Ordered several Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phones, but only received cheap knock-offs, not the real one…

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  • Anonymous

    This isn’t a new news. I’ve been cheated couple of times, each at the amt of $thousands.
    The 1st sample is as described but with retail cost, the follow shipment in bulk as per quote not exactly what you order. When try return exchange, i’ve to cover shipping both way…then viola, gone forever, both the goods and your money. Watch out dealing with non credit proven reliable plus strong honest history Chinese companies.

  • http://twitter.com/3tz3r Etzer Omar Rivera

    I don’t feel sorry for any of those people. In all of those cases the buyers were plain stupid. They looked at the picture. It depicted a brand-name product they were interested in. They looked at the price. It was a lot lower than it would be at known sellers.They DID’NT read the product specifications or the name of the product listing. For example, the iPad clone is specifically referred to as an “alptop” with an 8″ screen and other specifications that don’t match the iPad. If anything, these people deserved to be “scammed”. Yeah, iPads, Nokia phones and Nikon cameras are definitely available for less than $150… And of course you can get a huge 3DTV and a Bluray player for $500… In your dreams.

    All of the people who fall victim to these types of scams are idiots. So yeah, I don’t feel sorry for these people.