Any real shipping company is going to have their name after the @ "freight@shippingcompany.com", they are not going to be using "shippingcompany @ gmail.com".
If you have the address they want the items shipped to in the Netherlands than Google the address and see for yourself where it is.
My brother almost got scammed out of $40,000 worth of material plus 2nd Day Air shipping charges to Georgia. Supposedly a manager from a North Dakota vendor we use wanted to buy this material from us and ship it to their division in Georgia. I've seen these 'purchase requests' come in before and ignored them since the e-mail address had an extra 'al' added to the company's name - which I checked out and it went to a Dutch website. Last time I checked ND wasn't in Holland. I didn't know my bro didn't know these were fake. Luckily he got suspicious and after I told him to look closer at the e-mail address and Googled the address in Georgia (which turned out to be a trailer house in the middle of no where - yeah division my foot) he contacted the vendor in ND. They were very interested in the fake paperwork my bro had received from this guy. Bro e-mailed the guy back and told him since the dollar amount on the material was so high that we required a down payment he hasn't heard from him since.
Large amounts of items that they could get locally or at least from someone in their home country, a request to use an off brand 'shipping company' and then a request that you pay the shipper which they will repay. I smell a scam.
If you have the address they want the items shipped to in the Netherlands than Google the address and see for yourself where it is.
My brother almost got scammed out of $40,000 worth of material plus 2nd Day Air shipping charges to Georgia. Supposedly a manager from a North Dakota vendor we use wanted to buy this material from us and ship it to their division in Georgia. I've seen these 'purchase requests' come in before and ignored them since the e-mail address had an extra 'al' added to the company's name - which I checked out and it went to a Dutch website. Last time I checked ND wasn't in Holland. I didn't know my bro didn't know these were fake. Luckily he got suspicious and after I told him to look closer at the e-mail address and Googled the address in Georgia (which turned out to be a trailer house in the middle of no where - yeah division my foot) he contacted the vendor in ND. They were very interested in the fake paperwork my bro had received from this guy. Bro e-mailed the guy back and told him since the dollar amount on the material was so high that we required a down payment he hasn't heard from him since.
Large amounts of items that they could get locally or at least from someone in their home country, a request to use an off brand 'shipping company' and then a request that you pay the shipper which they will repay. I smell a scam.
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