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[Businessinchina]

Putian and Putian Scammers

China has a population of more than 1.3 billion, most of Chinese people and companies are honest and reliable enough, but a few scams from have ruined our good image in the international market, so far we have checked out hundreds of business scammers for foreign companies in . Most of the China Scams are located in Fujian province (covering Fuzhou, Xiamen, Putian, Jinjiang, Zhangzhou, Xianyou and Quanzhou city), Beijing, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin and Shenzhen etc. Among them Putian seems to be the home for online-scammers in China.

Putian is now notorious for business scammers online, there are hundreds of scammers from Putian have been disclosed and more Putian scammers are moving to some other big cities like Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Fuzhou etc in China after they get "rich" from scamming. Let's know more about Putian and Putian Scammers:

1. Where is Putian?
PUTIAN, a small city in Fujian Province, on the west bank of the Taiwan Straits, is hometown to countless overseas Chinese. It is also where the Mazu Culture originated, and is site of the South Shaolin Temple. It's near to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Jinjiang and Xiamen city in . Currently Putian city has a population of around 3 million.
2. What is Putian famous for in China?
Putian's pillar industries of shoe-making, brewing, electronics, garments, foodstuffs, and machinery have earned the city its epithets "Shoe City," "Beer City," and "Electronic City." The city's foreign-funded Jiatong Tire Co., Ltd., ranks first nationwide in this trade in terms of sales volume, and the Fujian Xuejin Beer Group Co., Ltd., is among the top ten in its field. Putian High-tech Industrial Park, which houses 149 enterprises from 13 countries and regions, is the largest electronic calculator production base in Asia. The Xinwei Electronics Co., Ltd., produces 400,000 electronic calculators daily, and its products are sold to Southern and Western Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Russia, making up 30 percent of the international market. Putian's agriculture has been industrialized, forming five major production bases in aquatic products, fruits, livestock, edible mushrooms, and vegetables. In 2001 and 2002, its annual output of loquats exceeded 30,000 tons, making up 40 percent of the national total, and ranking first in Fujian Province for ten successive years. Putian also takes the lead in raising eels. China's largest eel trading center is located in a street in Putian's Hanjiang New Port, which also serves as China's largest eel pricing and information center.
3. What can you buy from Putian ?
Shoes, esp the sports shoes, replicas of Nike, and other brands etc; Electronic watches, electronic calculators; Dried fruits and beer etc. Please note that the exclusively authorized Nike factory is located in Taicang, Suzhou instead of Putian although Putian is very famous in shoe industry on the globe.
4. What can't you buy from Putian ?
No international brand is available from Putian online, including Sony PS3, Nokia, Apple and any other well-known brands, there are too many scammers in Putian trying to cheat foreign buyers online with incredibly low prices for their so-called brands. But they normally send nothing after they receive the payment in .
5. Part of the scammers from Putian city ( there are similar scams in Fuzhou, Xiamen and Quanzhou etc) (checked and offered by some members from Alibaba Forum Community, everybody is free to add more scammers here.)
Putian Junnuo Shoes & Clothes Trade Co Ltd
Putian Chengxiang Foreign Trade Co., Ltd
Putian Tangrentrade Co., Ltd
Putian City Licheng District Zhaoyang Trade Co., LTD
Putian Chengxiang District Ruifeng Import & Export Co.,Ltd
Putian City Licheng District Topsun Trade Co., Ltd
Putian Trade2008 Foreign Trade Co., Ltd
Putian Chengxiang Huacheng Trade Co.,Ltd
Putian Longyue Trade Co Ltd
Fuzhou Hailian Trade Industry Co., Ltd
Putian Shuangxiong Co., Ltd
Xianyou Zhongyi Trading Co.,Ltd
Baike (Putian) Athletic Trade Co., Ltd
Putian Huacheng Co., Ltd
Putian Zhengde Trade Co.Ltd
Putian Hongmao Trade Co., Ltd
Putian Chengxiang District Shunying Trading Co., Ltd
Putian PLAYGAMES TRADE CO. LTD
Fuzhou Dragon Sportswear& FootwearTrading Co.,Ltd
Putian Anshun Lida Priniting Clothes Co., Ltd
Putian Minglian Trading Co.,Ltd
Putian Datang Shoes &Clothing Trading Co.,ltd
Putian Huaxia Trade Co.,Ltd
Putian Dahai Trade Co.,Ltd
Putian Qingrong Trading Co.,Ltd
Putian Nike Shoes Export Co.,Ltd
The following list is edited by Mr. Wilhelm, a well-known Alibaba member from this forum, please have a look at: http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/204677/Alphabetic_List_Fujian_Region_incl_Putian_fake_Nok ia_selling_companies_.htm
Chengxiang District Putian City Xinxing Trade Co., Ltd.
Fuzhou Mingfeng Electron Technology Co., Ltd.
Fuzhou ShineDe Trading Co.,Ltd.
Greatwall Trade Co., Ltd.
Huayi Trading Firm
Minggu Shoes Business Firm
Putian City Chengxiang District Barye Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian City Licheng District Huaer Trading Limited Company
Putian City Licheng District Zhaoyang Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Haixi Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Yuehua Footwear Trade Co.,Ltd
Quanzhou Beiqi Garment Co.,ltd.
Tiancheng Trade Co., Ltd.
Tianyuan Trade Co., Ltd.
ZhongYi Trade Co., Ltd., other than Xianyou Zhongyi Trading Co., Ltd
Chengxiang District Pinglong Clothing Factory
Chengxiang District Xianghui Clothing Store
Chengxiang Fanya Trade Co., Ltd.
Fujian Putian Chengxiang Pide Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. , same details like "Beter Foreign Trade"
Fujian Putian Chengxiang Beter Foreign Trade Co., Ltd., same details like "Pide Foreign Trade"
both have changed form "Peter" to "Beter" and "Bide" to "Pide"
Fujian Putian Traveling Shoes Factory
Fuzhou Jinnuo Trade Co., Ltd.
Fuzhou Shionhao Trade Co., Ltd.
Fuzhou Sigma International Trade Co., Ltd.
Fuzhou ZhongTianLi Trade Co., Ltd. 2times listed with different contact ways
Fuzhou ZhongTianLi Trade Co., Ltd. 2times listed with different contact ways
Han Jiang Wu Tang Yumei Toggery
Hualong Trade Co., Ltd.
Huiyue Shoes Trade Co., Ltd.
Kingpower Trade Co., Ltd.
Licheng District Putian Oukai Trade Co., Ltd.
Longxiang Shoes Co., Ltd.
Putian Chengxiang Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. (The Second Department)
Putian Chengxiang Huacheng Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Chengxiang Xingfu Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Chenshi Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian City Chengxiang District Yale Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian City Licheng District Aotewang Trading Limited Company
Putian City Licheng District Topsun Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian City Licheng Zone Risheng Shoes Factory 2times listed with different contact ways
Putian City Licheng Zone Risheng Shoes Factory 2times listed with different contact ways
Putian Eastern Pearl Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Footstar Shoes & Clothes Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Hengwang Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Huabo Trade Co., Ltd., now only Huabu Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Huayutrade Co., Ltd.
Putian Ivy Light Industrial Product Co., Ltd.
Putian Jiayi Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Junnuo Shoes & Clothes Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Kaishun Shoes Co., Ltd.
Putian Licheng District Zhongxiang Trading Co., Ltd.
Putian Lizhi Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Shuangxiong Co., Ltd.
Putian Soar Shoes and Clothes Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Walkon Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Zhengde Trade Co., Ltd.
Putian Ziheng Trading Co., Ltd.
Quanzhou Quangang Samsin Trade Co., Ltd.
Quanzhou Ruineng Electronic Development Co., Ltd.
Sinosun (Xiamen) Import & Export Co., Ltd.
United Trading Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Leadteam Trade Co., Ltd.
Xianyou Zhongyi Trading Co., Ltd.
Yihui Trade Co., Ltd.
Yonghui Trade Co., Ltd.
Zhenhai Ruiguo Garment Store
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[D M]

Small city of 4 million? That would be a large one over here!

[Businessinchina]

Originally Posted by D M

Small city of 4 million? That would be a large one over here!

It's small in China as China has population of more than 1300 million peolpe..

[bulletproof]

avoid The Handset Supermarket advertises as gold member on "made-in-china" site total scammers also know as WenFang International Trade Co Ltd based in fujian or Putian also names are mr David Wang, Mr Weng Fang and Meiyu Yang all scammers with this company on made-in-china site pretending to seell nintendo and phones etc. sent $650 got nothing.....be carefull!!!!!!!!!!!!

[regalf2001]

Is there website where people can post all these crooks?

[Businessinchina]

Originally Posted by regalf2001

Is there website where people can post all these crooks?

No such website available as there are many new scammers coming out every day on the globe.

[angmoomoo]

I've found a website that puts all the scammed website into a list.

this are the following links, http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chr...ain-name-scams and http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chr...bsite-in-china

[Businessinchina]

Originally Posted by angmoomoo

I've found a website that puts all the scammed website into a list.

this are the following links, http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chr...ain-name-scams and http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chr...bsite-in-china

Thanks, but there are still lot of new scammers have not disclosed on this site..