Dear scriptor-ga,

Please check this company to

Company Name:Poltrading,
Grazyna Jankowska 
Address:42/1 Gornoslaska, Kalisz, Wlkp, 
Poland Zip:62-800 
Telephone:48 885 477292 
Fax:48 880 963775

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/company/goto/10623638.html

This Company is a scam or real company ?

Thank you,
agausling

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 01 May 2006 12:42 PDT

Dear agausling,

I can't offer a definitive answer, and that's why I decided to provide
my thoughts as a comment you won't have to pay for. The Polish
companies register is, alas, not accessible online; requests for
information on companies are subject to fees.

Therefore, I have decided to simply let you know what I think:
Poltrading has written "scam" all over it (please not that this only
relates to the alleged electronics dealer; I found two other Polish
companies of that name who are not fraudulent at all).

- In their Alibaba profile, the contact person's name is given as "Mr
Grazyna Jankowska". But Grazyna Jankowska is clearly a woman's name
(even the family name has a female ending, as it is obligatory in
Poland). No real Pole would make that mistake. I guess the scammers
simply took a Polish name they found somewhere and did not bother to
find out whether it is a man's or a woman's name.

- They claim to be in business since 2004, and they even dare call
themselves "a leading provider of electronics to reseller worldwide".
However, this "leading" company has left barely any marks on the Web
in those two years. That is hard to believe.

- The company is not listed in Polish telephone directories.

- Despite their claim to exist since 2004, they registered with
another business-to-business marketplace, EC21, only very recently, on
24 April 2006. I guess that this "company" is not significantly older
than that. By the way, they can't even decide whether to spell their
own company's name "Poltrading" or "PolTrading":
http://poltrading.en.ec21.com/company_info.html

- Why does a "leading" company not even have a real website of their
own? Certainly only because the fraudsters behind this fake company
are too cheap to pay for a domain name (and maybe because the fake
contact data they would certainlyuse for registering would reveal that
they are scammers).

I feel a scam, but since I don't have access to the Polish company
register database, I can't prove it. Nevertheless, I firmly believe
that it is better not to do any business with Poltrading.

Regards,
Scriptor

For what it's worth, I agree with Scriptor. Looks very suspicious.
Search their phrase "has specialized in all computing needs. Our
complete line of compaq" and you will see that it is used in equally
suspicious sites on various trade directories.
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22has+specialized+in+all+computing+needs.+Our+complete+line+of+compaq%22&btnG=Search
Similar wording appears on this company.
http://www.alibaba.com/company/10531381.html

Also a comment. The description suggests that it sells to "resellers",
so it would be a warehousing operations. A leading one as they say.
Yet no web site to go to, no description of warehouses they have.
Usually drop-ship companies provide a lot of references. Looks like a
scam or insignificant operations with overblown verbage. I suggest to
use commercial letters of credit if you want to pursue deals with the
company.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/5/overview.html
http://www.ampolbiz.com/affiliate.htm