Chinese shopping scam website: meramani

dave.nerven

There is a Chinese shopping scam website calling itself meramani

It asks for payment only via Western Union or direct bank transfer and "cannot accept" Paypal or CCs.

Then it tries to phish for your email account login!

Just a warning.

dave.nerven

I have checked with Apple UK and there are NO Chinese online websites allowed to sell Apple gear so meramani.com is definitely a scam.

How do we close down this scam site? Several people I know were "recommended" this site from an email from someone whose email has obviously been hacked - but it was a plausible email initially which is why I checked the site out.

Me 13:08:04
how to pay? I have paypal or amex
13:08:23
For the first time to purchase products, we only accept bank transfers and Western Union.
13:08:33
Sorry! Visa or PayPal, we only accept it for the customers who have established the business relationship with us for a long time. That's to say, only the customer who have establish certain credit can pay via paypal.

Please understand.
Thanks.
Me 13:08:41
what is bank account details?
13:09:10
Bank Transfer (T/T)

(1)Bank Name: BANK OF CHINA SHANXI BRANCH
(2)Bank Address: 38 JUHUAN YUAN EAST AVE. ,XI'AN ,SHANXI PROV. ,CHINA
(3)Bank Number: 102011573307
(4)Swift Code: BKCHCNBJ620
(5)Beneficiary Name:
first name: Bin
Last name: Zhang
(6)Beneficiary Address: NO. 72, DONG SAN DAO STREET ,XI'AN CITY ,SHANXI PROVINCE, CHINA
(7)Zip: 710001 (Postal Code)
13:10:25
If you want buy products from here,
the step is:
1 - Please register on our website
2 - place your order
3 - we'll confirm your order,and send the payment information to you
4 - your must pay at first
5 - we will send your products
Thanks

fluffnutter

You need look no further than their user agreement to appreciate just how rubbish they are....

In the country of your destination may impose a certainly taxes and other charges, please learn clearly about that before your shopping from Meramani store. We won't take the consequences of the additional fees and damages caused by the above reasons.
But you can contact us freely when faced the following problems:
Products using laws, products' custom fees, ways of shipment, and freight etc. Please let us know your request and we are pleasure to do help for your convenient order.

dave.nerven

This also confirms the scam that meramani.com is

electronicsscams.co.cc/2010/08/meramani-com/

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Clickable link:
http://www.electronicsscams.co.cc/2010/08/meramani-com/