[Asterisk-biz] Fraud Alert: CGC Technologies (HK) Limited & Digiumchina.com

[Jeffery Chen]

Are www.digiumchina.com  the resellers of digium ?

Any body can answer the question ?


On 12/7/05, trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:38 +0800, David Liu wrote:
> > Dear All In The Asterisk Business Community,
> >
> > We have been a victim of this company called CGC Technologies (HK)
> > Limited (www.cgc.com.hk) and I believe the community deserves to know
> > about this.
> [snip]
> > Scammers Involved:
> > Kent Wong, (based in Hong Kong), Mobile/Cell: +852 96475105
> > Billow Li, (based in Guangzhou, China), Mobile/Cell: +86 13929562515
> > Peter Ong, (based in Singapore), Mobile/Cell: +65 94501178
>
> Its trivial for them to change any name you may see and any phone number
> you may call.
>
> While this type of activity is somewhat hard to deal with, its always
> better to use a trusted escrow service or have prepayment terms to avoid
> this type of a problem.  Of course prepayment can result in the same
> type of a situation, although generally if someone takes your money on a
> prepayment scheme they have to deliver or its fraud, although if its a
> dispute over quality of product delviered then often its civil and not
> criminal, so again lack of police assistance.
>
> Escrow is your best bet, just make sure they are a trusted entity.  I
> have seen very questionable 'escrow services' that people have requested
> I use, and a simple whois shows the domain registered last week, contact
> information is a hotmail account, etc.  Its far easier to verify an
> escrow company 1 time and use them for all your business where customers
> dont want to prepay than it is to verify every customer you may get.
>
>
> --
> Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
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Jeffery
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