New scam tactics

There are scammers currently operating via Alibaba.com who claim they want to purchase large quantities of products and arrange to visit our factory to inspect the equipment. Once they arrive in China, they claim their bank cards aren't working and ask the factory to advance funds, promising that their boss will wire the US dollars via bank transfer. Since international transfers take 3–4 days to clear, they exploit this window to pressure us for money, even sending us a remittance slip (which turns out to be fake) from their country.

This is a sophisticated scam; we have already fallen victim to it, and we hope other professionals in the foreign trade industry will take this as a warning and avoid being deceived.