Supplier from Bangkok

Hi,
I established contact with a supplier at Bangkok selling fuel polishing machines.
his web site: www.fuelturbo.com
Email address: Ketsaraporn Puangsuk" <[email protected]>

How can i know check if he is a scammer?

Thanks
Alex

[AlanJones]

On the plus side, the domain has been registered since 2004, but there are a couple of red flags.

1. The domain has been registered by someone who is hiding their identity by using a privacy service.
2. The domain currently has no physical contact details on it (no address or phone number).

The only way to actually be certain is to visit them and make sure that they actually posess the items they claim to be selling and then have someone supervise the shipping of them to ensure you receive what you pay for.

If the company really is in Thailand (the Contact page gives no clue), there should be some Thai text on the site, but there isn't. The About page doesn't say when the company was founded.

All the files on the Resources page are in a directory called 2013/11/. For a domain that's been registered since 2004, that's suspicious. I suspect that someone took over the domain in or shortly before November 2013 or took it over later and replaced it with content created in 2013.

I'd stay away from the site.

[AlanJones]

Wayback Machine shows that there was an address in Thailand and telephone numbers, up until sometime in 2010/11, when the phone number disappeared. The last entry for the Contact page is Sept 2013, and the address was still there then.