The announcement of Alibaba B2B Company revealed the scammers’ fraud methods: Generally speaking, these stores provide high-demand consumer electronics products at very attractive prices and low minimum purchase prices. Volume and relatively unsafe payment methods for transactions. What's more, they carefully planned organized and systematic actions to undermine the integrity system of Alibaba's online platform and sought to circumvent the company's certification measures.
It is conceivable that for those global buyers who lack understanding of Chinese suppliers, a Chinese supplier with a "gold supplier" certification label should have extremely high credibility and attraction. How these scammers worked with insiders to pass the "gold supplier" certification was not detailed in the announcement. However, "gold suppliers" are undoubtedly an excellent cover for these scammers to commit fraud. Alibaba is to blame for charging annual membership fees from these so-called “gold suppliers” and displaying recommendations to buyers around the world.
This "Alibaba Fraud Gate" has once again attracted people's great attention to the integrity issue in the e-commerce market. The relevant person in charge of Alibaba repeatedly emphasized in this incident that the company must maintain the value of customer first and defend the principle of integrity. The company must not become a machine whose purpose is only to make money. Behavior that violates the company's values ??will not be tolerated at all.