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Stay away from fraud attempts

How many times have you come across these situations?
- You submitted a negotiation and didn't hear back.
- You asked for an LOI or an SCO and it didn't come.
- You spoke to your client and didn't hear back from the other side.
- The person negotiating with you requests a meeting between buyer and seller and a large number of intermediaries and unknown people enter this meeting.
- The buyer doesn't send any information about their financial capacity to carry out the deal.
- The intermediaries ask for documentation to move forward with the negotiation without offering anything.
- You had your data captured and then started receiving offers directly.
- Documentation and data end up in the hands of unknown people.
- The SPA isn't signed even after you've provided the data to complete the deal.
- The intermediary or supplier claims to have the product available, but this is not the case.
- The buying or supplying company doesn't exist.
- You have come close to falling for a scam.
- You receive information about a possible deal via Whatsapp. Your contact asks you to go ahead, but they have absolutely nothing. He simply passes on what dozens of intermediaries have already done for the same deal.
- You've wasted your time and are frustrated to learn that the client has declined the deal you thought existed.

The most common scams practiced on the market are:

- The falsification of credit documents (SBLC, DLC, etc.), data theft, theft of codes at custodial houses, theft and tampering with CIS and passports, etc.
- The supplier has no ballast (product) and formalizes the supply contract by demanding payment in advance for expenses or shipments. After the credit, he disappears with the money.
- The buyer presents a robust ICPO with all the false information. The supplier ships the goods and loses the entire first shipment and a contract that never existed. These are usually million-dollar losses.
- Offices that don't exist. The companies have a website, documentation and knowledge of the transactions. However, this is fraud.

Come to PHI's innovation

PHI manages the entire business, protecting stakeholders. If a deal, sale or purchase, reaches us and is not consistent, it is automatically removed from our systems.

PHI has people on site to check whether a deal really exists.