Is this website/company a scam?

Does anyone know if this company is a scam http://www.sinorich.com.hk?

The following is at the bottom of the email they sent me:
Vickie Tang

Sino Rich Technology Ltd

Office: +852 3169 3402

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.sinorich.com.hk

MSN: [email protected]

Welcome to Scamwarners. A quick check on the site suggests that it is a fake.

Their details :
Domain Name: SINORICH.COM.HK
Contract Version: HKDNR latest version
Registrant Contact Information:
Company English Name (It should be the same as the registered/corporation name on your Business Register Certificate or relevant documents): SINO RICH TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Company Chinese name:
Address: NO C 16/F CHINAWEAL CENTRE
414-424 JAFFE ROAD HONG KONG
Country: HK
Email: [email protected]
Domain Name Commencement Date: 06-12-2010
Expiry Date: 07-12-2011
Re-registration Status: Complete
Name of Registrar: HKDNR
Administrative Contact Information:
Given name: SCICUBE
Family name: SCICUBE
Company name: SCICUBE LIMITED
Address: RM 202, 2/F., 88 KWAI CHEONG ROAD, KWAI CHUNG, N.T. HONG KONG
Country: HK
Phone: +852-81143699
Fax: +852-30070512
Email: [email protected]
Account Name: HK2610722T
Technical Contact Information:
Family name: SCICUBE
Company name: SCICUBE LIMITED
Address: RM 202, 2/F., 88 KWAI CHEONG ROAD, KWAI CHUNG, N.T. HONG KONG
Country: HK
Phone: +852-81143699
Fax: +852-30070512
Email: [email protected]

I note that the site is only registered for one year, that's one indicator that it might well be fake.
The 'about us' page contains images that have been taken from elsewhere on the web.
The copyright info at the bottom of the page is '2007' but the site is '2010' and the company has been going since 2006. Inconsistent information, but not a defining rule as to the site being fake.

Welcome to ScamWarners Paradiddle. You mention that the company sent email to you. Please post up the email(s) per our site posting guidelines / rules. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3561

Inspector Gadget has given you information that is available publicly and what that information may mean. Without more input from you we don't have much more we can add.

https://mail.google.com/mail/h/1s7hk1nd ... ead68a08d7

Above is the url of the header (original) of an email received from Sinorich. I don't know if i have done this correctly so please let me know. Thanks

Welcome here paradiddle.

Just copy and paste the emails here. The link you gave goes to the gmail login page. Please post the headers too, if you don't know how to get the headers, just ask.

I hope this is right.

Delivered-To:
Received: by 10.204.62.135 with SMTP id x7cs13747bkh;
Wed, 6 Apr 2011 03:32:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.42.239.6 with SMTP id ku6mr1201181icb.189.1302085939909;
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:32:19 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from nw-a21.pointdnshere.com (ns134.pointdnshere.net [58.64.180.159])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13si1348302ibc.22.2011.04.06.03.32.16
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 58.64.180.159 as permitted sender) client-ip=58.64.180.159;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 58.64.180.159 as permitted sender) [email protected]
Received: from [210.17.249.1] (helo=pc020)
by nw-a21.pointdnshere.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.67)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1Q7Pyr-0002RT-K5
for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:28:59 +0800
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: "Sinorich Technology Ltd" <[email protected]>
To:
Subject: Video Game & Accessories Price List 110406.xls
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:29:39 +0800
Organization: Sino Rich Technology Ltd
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_056E_01CBF489.088DD1C0"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0
Thread-Index: Acv0RV330cMXzbZGS/K5P9pCUsB3OA==
Content-Language: en-gb
X-Antivirus-Scanner: Seems clean. You should still use an Antivirus Scanner

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_056F_01CBF489.088DD1C0"


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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear Valued Customers,

Sino Rich Technology Ltd is one of leading players of Gaming business in
Hong Kong.
We are specialized in supplying all kinds of Game Consoles (Sony, Xbox &
Nintendo), Video Games and game related accessories.

Enclosed please find our updated offer for your reference.
Please let me know if you are interested in any items. Thanks.



Remarks:
1- Payment Term: TT in advance
2- Price Term: EXW
3- Lead-time: All items quoted are stock offer



Vickie Tang
Sino Rich Technology Ltd
Office: +852 3169 3402
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.sinorich.com.hk
MSN: [email protected]

Thanks for posting. But please take out your own email address, otherwise you'll end up with a lot of spam in your inbox.

As a general observation it is wise to be very cautious when dealing with Far Eastern websites offering to sell electronics goods, but then I'd be equally cautious in dealing with a website claiming to represent a company located in my own country unless I could verify their details and confirm their track record.

Some observations

The profile of a business called Sino Rich Technology Ltd on Alibaba

http://www.alibaba.com/member/hk117469937/contactinfo.html

mentions Ms Vickie Tang, the website address you have referred to and her mobile phone number which also appears on many of the ads posted on sites around the internet.

Mobile Phone: 852 9460 5953

A search on the internet reveals that that her name and phone number is also associated with another company

Excel Technology (Pacific) Ltd

http://34551.com/Hong-Kong/Excel-Technology-Pacific-Ltd_uuguazb.html

Perhap she changed employer, or maybe someone is impersonating her and either or both of her employers, or maybe she works for both companies There is no way to tell and that highlights the problem of dealing with suppliers on the internet that you cannot verify.

Equally, if you perform a search on the precise company address from Sino Rich Technology Ltd's website it causes a lot of apparently unrelated company names to appear with exactly the same address down to the same unit. Perhaps it is a representative office, or maybe an accomodation address. or maybe a Hongkong company represents many Chinese companies there.

I can't provide you with an answer.

Hi all, it came to our interest when we saw this post in Google search with our company address.

We are a Web Hosting company based in Hong Kong, we can confirm that the domain mention in the thread is one of our customer using our hosting service, as you may then know, we are only a web hosting service provider.

We "Scicube Limited", do not and is not related to this company A.K.A "SINO RICH TECHNOLOGY LIMITED" in any form other than hosting services.

If you would like to know more about our company, please feel free to visit our site at http://www.scicube.com, and our company profile is listing at our about us page http://www.scicube.com/about_us.php with our legal Business Registration info.

Thank you.