Tradekey Scam (Contacted a company about buying 5 Nintendo Wiis)

I just wanted to tell everyone about my experience with Tradekey. I recently contacted a company about buying 5 Nintendo Wiis for a total of $1000.

Sounds good, right?

Turns out that the lady that I was talking to doesn't work for the website that she claimed to. She sent me a list of customers that had purchased from them before. I contacted them and they all said that is was safe. They were all US customers.

They did send me a package. It was ONE Nokia N95. NOT 5 Wiis. I wrote to complain. She said it was a shipping mix up and that it would get fixed. I waited a week, then two. I contacted her serveral times during that period. Everything that I got back said something about how her manager was fixing the situtaion.

I very recently sent an email saying that If I didn't get a tracking number and receive the package soon that I would be forced to sell the N95 and cut my losses. I have yet to hear back since then.

I made a few major mistakes that I want to warn everyone about so they don't do the same.

1. I assumed that because she sent me a link in her email that she worked for that company. I did contact them through tradkey.com, but she somehow got in the middle.

2. I only used email to contact her. In the future, I want every form of contact possible and I will check on them before buying anything. Email is not enough.

3. I can't believe that all of the customers that I talked to were lying. She must have gotten into someone elses files. Again, contact in more that one method would have helped.

4. I asked to use an escrow service and was denied. This should have been a HUGE red flag.

Long story.... Don't buy anything unless you are 100% sure. Don't be like me and get caught up in the excitement.

[olive]

Interesting input, thank you.

Hi there I am currently waiting on a delivery from a company I found on tradekey for make up. They have given me a tracking no but cannot find it in China or here in Australia. I spend about $800 USD. The money was paid into their account. It is coming up to 3 weeks so I guess I have been taken for a ride. How can people do this?
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I have been scammed $847. Has anyone been able to apply some pressure with Tradekey and recoup there money? They are responsible in this that they access to crooks who swindle unsuspecting people? Or is there away to persue legal action on the company....class action suit?

Bad way to start the new year

I was just getting ready to order from a couple of vendors on Tradekey.
I think now I will hold off. Please read the info below. You can also run
a whois on the website name to see more about it. Hope this helps.



Posted content about tracing back an IP address from an e-mail header.

Internet emails are designed to carry the IP address of the computer from which the email was sent. This IP address is stored in an email header delivered to the recipient along with the message. Email headers can be thought of like envelopes for postal mail. They contain the electronic equivalent of addressing and postmarks that reflect the routing of mail from source to destination.
Finding IP Addresses in Email Headers
Many people have never seen an email header, because modern email clients often hide the headers from view. However, headers are always delivered along with the message contents. Most email clients provide an option to enable display of these headers if desired.
Internet email headers contain several lines of text. Some lines start with the words Received: from. Following these words is an IP address, such as in the following fictitous example:

Received: from teela.mit.edu (65.54.185.39)
by mail1.aol.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 2003 02:27:02 -0000
These lines of text are automatically inserted by email servers that route the message. If only one "Received: from" line appears in the header, a person can be confident this is the actual IP address of the sender.
Understanding Multiple Received: from Lines
In some situations, however, multiple "Received: from" lines appear in an email header. This happens when the message passes through multiple email servers. Alternatively, some email spammers will insert additional fake "Received: from" lines into the headers themselves in an attempt to confuse recipents.

To identify the correct IP address when multiple "Received: from" lines are involved requires a small bit of detective work. If no faked information was inserted, the correct IP address is contained in the last "Received: from" line of the header. This is a good simple rule to follow when looking at mail from friends or family.

Understanding Faked Email Headers
If faked header information was inserted by a spammer, different rules must be applied to identify a sender's IP address. The correct IP address will be normally not be contained in the last "Received: from" line, because information faked by a sender always appears at the bottom of an email header.

To find the correct address in this case, start from the last "Received: from" line and trace the path taken by the message by traveling up through the header. The "by" (sending) location listed in each "Received" header should match with the "from" (receiving) location listed in the next "Received" header below. Disregard any entries that contain domain names or IP addresses not matching with the rest of the header chain. The last "Received: from" line containing valid information is the one that contains the sender's true address.

Note that many spammers send their emails directly rather than through Internet email servers. In these cases, all "Received: from" header lines except the first one will be faked. The first "Received: from" header line, then, will contain the sender's true IP address in this scenario.

Internet Email Services and IP Addresses
Finally, the popular Internet-based email services differ greatly in their use of IP addresses in email headers. Use these tips to identify IP addresses in such mails.
Google's Gmail service omits the sender IP address information from all headers. Instead, only the IP address of Gmail's mailserver is shown in Received: from. This means it is impossible to find a sender's true IP address in a received Gmail.


Microsoft's Hotmail service provides an extended header line called "X-Originating-IP" that contains the sender's actual IP address.


Emails from Yahoo (if untampered) contain the sender's IP address in the last Received: entry.

Hello, based on your experience I spend the same. buy a playstation 3 and never arrived. with your experience you would like a consultation.


this site is reliable? www.etrustdeal.com
Please wait for your answer.
my email is francopicco88@hotmail.com

Hello, based on their experience could tell me if the site is reliable?

Hi There,
This is the first time I heard that TradeKey not so reliable place for business transaction. I wish I found this site before I made my transaction. This time it came from company in Russia, Russtail. I have lost lost of money to them, "very" unfortunately. They seemed to be very cooperative at the start but after three weeks the shipping documents never arrived and the container loading photos never been shown as well and they kept pushing for me to pay the balance. Their website looked legitimate with phone number and address too, but now their website has gone.

This needs to be stopped, someone, anyone out there. Can someone please help us to put an end to this scam?

I have send my first email requesting assistance to WLD, hopefully I can get help and get my money back at least some of it if not all. Just started my business and have lost lots of money.

Anthony.

This is a waste of thread space

"Been there done that" cost me about $2500 to $3000 AUD The last one I thought I had all the info I needed to do a safe trade with a company in China, license number, photo ID, Government Tax number and others. I ever went to a Chinese lady to get a verification of the paper work that was sent to me so I was not making the same mistake again. Ye right, well moneys gone and I am more wiser than before. My first rule, pay with paypal only second make the purchase no more than you are prepared to risk or lose even if its only $100.

It takes time to build a reliable list of trusted people.

I've heard bad things about paypal also but having had a good experience from them over many years and after a 3 months dispute with a USA hobby shop dealer that did not send me my goods (twice) they refunded me the whole $750 dollars.

My tip, link your paypal to your credit card and you can get a back charge to card should the goods not arrive?