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Am I overreacting prematurely here or is this normal?
After having been scammed of thousands of dollars from various "suppliers" found from all corners of the web, I only had a few hundred left to spend. Each scammer would use the same tactic. Take my money for the order, a hefty delivery fee and then allegedly send me the product. However, the tracking number provided would always be to a shady, so-called "freight forwarding company", with a cookie-cutter website with plenty of spelling errors and a brand new domain registry date.
The tracking would then be manually edited every few days, with ridiculous updates, where some would be more detailed like "Hamburg, Germany" and then some would be like "Finland" or "California". In general, "tracking" and a website that gives the clear impression both were created by the "vendor" and are fictitious. When it's real tracking with legit companies, the updates are extremely detailed, like what airport or even terminal. So with these scam couriers, as soon tracking claimed the package to be at the border of my country, it would say "on hold" and I'd get an email asking for 200-800 dollars (requested to be paid in crypto, mind you
in "insurance fees" or "discrete package fees" or "customs fees". I tried paying the fee once and still no package. I doubt any of those scammers ever sent anything.
Every legitimate supplier I've ever had has just sent directly through DHL, or FedEx or UPS with easy, professional tracking.
So anyway, I'm down to the last few hundred of my budget, and I decide to order from chemchabinet as my last chance. He seemed to be verified to be legitimate on DBG and had what I needed so I figured I'm spending my last finances securely. To get just enough so I can get back on the horse again.
And then boom, after very sparse communication, I ask him about a tracking number, and he tells me to check my email. I do and guess what, it's a link to another one of those shady, fake, "freight forwarding" companies with the exact same aura of fraud as the plenty of other ones I've relied on in vein.
Anyway, I'm not prematurely claiming chemcabinet has scammed me already, I'm just trying to cope with the concern. Has he done this with any of your orders as well? Have they come through without any hidden fees or trouble? Is there any legitimacy or purpose in using these suspicious "freight forwarding companies"? Are they used by honest vendors as well, for some reason? Because the reason scammers use them is obvious.
If my order does come through as planned, I'll apologize for all my doubts and find some hope in this dire, modern landscape ridden with nothing but shameless scammers.
After having been scammed of thousands of dollars from various "suppliers" found from all corners of the web, I only had a few hundred left to spend. Each scammer would use the same tactic. Take my money for the order, a hefty delivery fee and then allegedly send me the product. However, the tracking number provided would always be to a shady, so-called "freight forwarding company", with a cookie-cutter website with plenty of spelling errors and a brand new domain registry date.
The tracking would then be manually edited every few days, with ridiculous updates, where some would be more detailed like "Hamburg, Germany" and then some would be like "Finland" or "California". In general, "tracking" and a website that gives the clear impression both were created by the "vendor" and are fictitious. When it's real tracking with legit companies, the updates are extremely detailed, like what airport or even terminal. So with these scam couriers, as soon tracking claimed the package to be at the border of my country, it would say "on hold" and I'd get an email asking for 200-800 dollars (requested to be paid in crypto, mind you
in "insurance fees" or "discrete package fees" or "customs fees". I tried paying the fee once and still no package. I doubt any of those scammers ever sent anything.Every legitimate supplier I've ever had has just sent directly through DHL, or FedEx or UPS with easy, professional tracking.
So anyway, I'm down to the last few hundred of my budget, and I decide to order from chemchabinet as my last chance. He seemed to be verified to be legitimate on DBG and had what I needed so I figured I'm spending my last finances securely. To get just enough so I can get back on the horse again.
And then boom, after very sparse communication, I ask him about a tracking number, and he tells me to check my email. I do and guess what, it's a link to another one of those shady, fake, "freight forwarding" companies with the exact same aura of fraud as the plenty of other ones I've relied on in vein.
Anyway, I'm not prematurely claiming chemcabinet has scammed me already, I'm just trying to cope with the concern. Has he done this with any of your orders as well? Have they come through without any hidden fees or trouble? Is there any legitimacy or purpose in using these suspicious "freight forwarding companies"? Are they used by honest vendors as well, for some reason? Because the reason scammers use them is obvious.
If my order does come through as planned, I'll apologize for all my doubts and find some hope in this dire, modern landscape ridden with nothing but shameless scammers.
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(Thinking happy thoughts)
