I may not be one of the great netpreneur on the internet yet involved in any dropshipping businesses. I’m just telling that people who like to trade through the internet must be very…i mean very extra careful and have a critical analysis before making any buying decision on the internet.

As, i’m doing blogging thing part time….i got my day job to do. But i just want to reflect to all my Malaysian friend of one emails that i received through my office email network, its a guy from south africa asking help and advise regarding scam activities in dropshipping business. Here’s the email ;

To all my dear friends,

This early morning I received a call from Mr Seoogobind (I’m not very sure whether this is the right spelling). He was calling from Surinam, South Africa. He is having problem which need our advice and attention. I would like to share and ask my expert friends in KPDNHEP to assist me solving the problem.

He had ordered three containers of Carnation brand Evaporated Milk and Nescafe products from Malaysian based company GRACIOUS WORLD SDN.BHD. (www.graciousworld.com) and the transaction were done through internet and phone calling. He had made 3 payments and from the first payment he made (18th May 2007 untill today, the total payment is amounted up to USD27,000 but unfortunately, he still didn’t manage to get his order. The payment made through TT and he had promised to me to fax the copy of it, some related invoices and papers as soon as possible.

He tried to contact the respective officers of the company named;

1.Mr Lim Khong
Director of Supply

2. Mr. Koh Tan
Director of Sales and Export

3.Miss Shanti Maholtra
Northern Regional Manager

at 03-21165743 many times but he failed to reach anyone of them. When I browsed the company’s website, I had a bad feeling that there may be something fishy going on in the company’s activity. I’m not very sure, where should I channel this issue or whether this case is under our jurisdiction but I believe we have to do something to help this poor guy and the most important part it will reflect our Malaysia image to foreign investors.

There are few things that I would like to moot;

1) What is the best advice pertaining to this problem?
2) If there is any wrongdoing, did our friends from SSM and enforcement division can take action in any Acts that under our purview?

3) Does actually GRACIOUS WORLD (M) SDN BHD registered and exist? Probably our friends from SSM can help us verify the status.

4) If it is not under our jurisdiction where should we channel this problem?

You can browse the company’s website www.graciousworld to get the details of the company. To kindhearted officers out there, I’m very much appreciate if you can contact him personally and these following particulars may help you;

Name : Mr Seoogobind

Company’s name : SIMPEX International Sdn.Bhd.

Tel no: 00597232454 (office)

005978504705 (mobile)

005978817924 (mobile)

e-mail : simpex@sr.net

This gentleman is expecting something bright from us..

Thank you in advance for your attention and advices.

Well, this thing is still pending and hopefully some authorities will investigate this matter.

But i would like to point out that the email is from my office’s mate and this email and have been circulated to everyone in the office.

I don’t really want to judge on this matter…but i can give some general comments on this matter. I find it hard to believe as this website by the name of www.graciousworld.com is actually registered by Malaysian company. The realities shows that Malaysians have been banned from the clickbank and not in the paypal’s list for withdrawal is a big troublesome to us Malaysians….plusss…..the high fraud credit card cases contributed by Malaysians too…andd…..the bad news is that this company of graciousworld have put it even more by tarnishing us as Malaysians or even to the business community in Malaysia especially those in the internet marketing and e-commerce businesses.

Pertaining to this matter….I urged that every Malaysians to adhere to the ethics of trading online and respect the transactions made. Otherwise this would be a burden to us Malaysians as more and more reputable merchant provider, making money programmes and the international consumer would have a very bad impressions towards us.