I was ripped off by these chinese internet scams, on their fake site newelectronicmall.com they offer all kinds of electronics for incredibly low prices. I ordered a brand name cell phone, paid 280usd through Western Union, which by itself was very suspicious, this payment method is mostly used by scams, and that's it, I lost my money. They also gave me a tracking number which never appeared on any of chinese post servises. After that I tried to reach them by sending numerous e-mails, but they never replied. As I discovered later all chinese directories such as china-direct-buy.com, alibaba.com are full of scams willing to deceive you. Of course there are also many decent salesmen, but you need to be very careful to differ them. As I see now it was very easy to notice that their site is very suspicious, they have links that lead to nowhere, they use free email addresses, they only accept WU payment or wire transfer which is very unsafe. I wonder, is there a way to stop the scams, or they are allowed to to anything they want?
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