Dear onlinebiz03,
I advise against doing business with Erick Store. According to what my
research revealed, that company is highly dubious:
1.
I checked their website http://erick-store.net/ and it looks like a
primitive fraud full of sloppy mistakes:
- On the same page, the CEO & President is first called "Erick"
(obviously, the poor fellow can't afford a last name), and then, only
some lines below "Yuko Nakari".
- The alleged address of the company is 3-4 Iskandar Muda, Medan,
North Sumatera 20155 Indonesia. While there is a street named Jl.
Sultan Iskandar Muda in Medan, the postal code 20155 is wrong. The
correct postal code for Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda 1 to 105 is 20154.
Since the wrong 20155 shows up on the website as well as in several
online advertisements of Erick Store, it is not a singular typo, but a
badly faked address.
- The English text of the website is full of mistakes, and the site
design is extremely primitiveand ugly. One should assume that a
company that claims to have 983 employees, 5 branch offices and 4
warehoused for their "large-scale enterprise" could find someone with
better knowledge of the English language and afford a professional web
designer.
2.
I checked ownership of the domain "erick-store.net". Allegedly, it is
owned by this person:
Registrant Contact:
Erick-store
Erick Kalak Adon (Sangana@yahoo.com)
+62.2322222111
Fax: -
jl. pluto 231 Batam
Batam, Kep. Riau 211222
Indonesia
That address makes no sense. 211222 is not a valid Indonesian postal
code. And there is no street named Jl. Pluto anywhere in Batam. The
telephone number is not in any way similar to other, real numbers in
Batam I found. "Erick Kalak Adon" is obviously supposed to be one of
the two fictitious CEO-Presidents of Erick Store. This will become
important in connection with the next point on my list.
3.
I searched for online advertisements and offers of Erick Store. For a
"large-scale enterprise", the number of results was very
disappointing. However, they are interesting. For example this offer
posted at Alibaba.com:
http://www.alibaba.com/member/chris33tian/companyprofile.html
Suddenly, Mr. Erick Kalak Adon has become Erick Christian, CEO. The
telephone number is +62(0)61-8221060, which seems to be a valid
Indonesian number (this does, of course, not mean that it belongs to a
legit company).
Research led to another company advertising at Alibaba.com, "Medan
Health And Electronic Corp. Ltd", of which mysterious Erick Christian
is CEO, too:
http://www.alibaba.com/member/erickc/companyprofile.html
This company has the same address as Erick Store, complete with the
wrong postal code. They even share the same telephone line: Only the
last digit is different, which makes me believe that 0 and 1 are
internal extensions. I come to the conclusion that both "companies"
are identical.
4.
Performing a Google search for "Erick Store" also turns up
http://erick-shop.com/ . That website is a ruin, but with suspiously
similar fragmentary design. I searched for the owner of that domain
and got the following data:
Registrant:
narami sen
9963 bradford grove dr.
frisco, tx 75035
us
Registrar: ALLINDOM
Domain Name: ERICK-SHOP.COM
Created on: 28-MAR-05
Expires on: 28-MAR-07
Last Updated on: 22-JUL-05
Administrative Contact:
christian, erick cari_makan34@yahoo.com
narami sen
9963 bradford grove dr.
frisco, tx 75035
us
Here we have Erick Christian again, and now he is suddenly connected
both with an address in Texas and with someone or something called
"Narami Sen". I decided to follow that new trace and found this
website of "Narami Sen Co.":
http://vip.busytrade.com/naramisen
They claim to deal wholesale in Apple iPods, and their alleged address
is ... Medan Jl. Iskandar Muda 34, Indonesia. Suspiciously similar to
Erick Store's 3-4 Iskandar Muda. And the alleged contact person is one
"Mr. Mr. Erick Prasetyo S" - another Erick!
In my opinion, "Erick Store" is far too dubious, obscure and shady to
do business with. They use fake addresses, fake names and try
everything to conceal their identity and real location. A reputable
companie would not behave like that. I advise against establishing any
business contact.
Regards,
Scriptor
Sources:
Indonesian Yellow Pages
http://www.yellowpages.co.id/
Indonesia News Online: Complete Postal Codes of Indonesia
http://www.indonesianewsonline.com/prangko/stamps/kodepos.htm
Indonesia News Online: Complete Postal Codes of Medan
http://indonesianewsonline.com/prangko/stamps/medan.htm
Allwhois Domain Database
http://www.allwhois.com/
Search terms used:
"erick store"
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"sen narami"
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"iskandar muda" 20155
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"erick christian" medan
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