Does anyone know a private shipping company: X-Press Freight Forwarder Inc.?

There is a US based operations.
http://xpressfreight.us/

Yes, XPRESS FREIGHT SERVICES INC. is real, but I just can’t find the X-Press Freight “FORWARDER” Inc…They ship products in secret…I think. :P

Luckily, I haven’t done anything, not even charged her credit card. One thing really weird, her billing address for the credit card is in Indiana state, so close to Michigan!

I actually can drive to there and back for less $100 gasoline. (gas is cheap right now. :P)

Were you able to verify the card with the 3 numbers off the back? Either that or paypal would be the best. If they didn’t offer up the numbers on the back of the card and make sure it goes through.

My customer should pay for the shipping, so that will be my delivery/ relaxing trip~ :p

I think it’s a scam.

i think so too but just wanted to confirm. its just sad that one moment your are happy that you have a huge order but then second moment its just fraud order. :( Thanks for the reply.

I think there is no possibility that this is not some sort of scam. It doesn’t cost over $1000 to ship a package to Spain by any reputable shipping company.

I feel your order from Spain was from the same person. It is sad, but it is very likely a scam. I told her that my website security service takes long to process money order, and she asked me what my processor is. It was very weird that any customer wants to know the processor of the company.

I didn’t answer her after that. Last week, I received an email asking about the scam. It seems that the same person still keeps trying on other companies.

I am glad both of you were able to prevent any loss from this.

Thank you all for the kindly response! :D

Thank you all so much for posting this! I too just got an email from them. Exactly the same email Sannetea posted a few comments below. I had a weird feeling about this “order” when I got the first email, figured they may be related to my Nigerian Prince Uncle, lol. It is quite sad they’re taking advantage of small businesses. Thank you all so much for taking the time to post on this discussion! You have really saved me from making a costly mistake.

I’ll copy and paste the other emails I received from them, in case anyone else looking to see if they are getting scammed finds this discussion.

I would try FedEx or DHL both operate in Europe.

If you have been paid the obscene amount of money the shipper was charging in the earlier post and it’s not a situation where the customer can get there money back, you may have to go with it and see if this shipping company actually picks up the order. Maybe they are less the scam and more a company that simply charges obscene amounts of money that no one in their right mind would pay. And this buyer if she is willing to use such a company is clearly not in her right mind. Like I said this is presuming the customer cannot just falsely claim to never have received the goods and get her money back. If that is the situation, like Mr Mopar said go with FedEx or DHL. They will have reliable tracking to Europe.

I think you can request a signature on the delivery. Have you checked to see if the money you sent has cleared to you BEFORE shipping it out.

If she can simply claim not to have received the product all the more reason to go with FedEx or DHL. They will have tracking to prove she received the product and you can set it up so she has to sign for the package. If she can potentially ask for her money back claiming to have not received the goods I would not ship by this dodgy shipping company.

Since FedEx or DHL will be noticeably cheaper than this bogus company how can she refuse if it isn’t a scam. Yes FedEx and DHL are expensive carriers but the one in this thread had obscene prices and if it is real is the worst deal in the shipping industry.

I would at this point tell her she either accepts FedEx shipping or she doesn’t get the product and she doesn’t get a full refund.

I agree with AllanK.

You may tell her that you only work with reliable shipping companies, like FedEx or DHL, to avoid any misdelivery. If not, you can’t complete the order and will refund her the amount of payment after deducted the supplies costs.

I doubt there is any part of Spain that a package originated by the USPS and carried on by the Spanish Postal Service can’t deliver to. Even if there are parts of Spain where UPS doesn’t deliver there is no way it costs $1020 to deliver a 7 lb package to any part of Spain.

I actually checked the address via Google map. The street view showed me an apartment near downtown Madrid. There is no way that USPS can’t deliver.

I know they are targeting so many small companies. Even today i got email from the fake shipping company :
Dear Client,
Thanks for your mail, We really appreciate your patronage, We haven’t hear back from you regarding Mrs Schuyler Bedge Shipment, So you still wants to proceed with it so we can sign the remaining papers, or we should cancel this request. Kindly reply as soon as possible.

Looking forward to be of more service to you.

:( I have stopped replying .

They use different names but same trick: big order, fake shipping company and forgery credit card. It seems to me that the skeptical Spanish buyer is a scam for sure.

They want your money. If you had gone through and spent your money they would have had a bunch of pocket change to spend.

Someone’s already mentioned it, but I’m going to bring up again that the company’s using gmail. That is a HUUUUGE red flag. Any legitimate company would be using their own domain-email, and if they don’t have the money to afford that, then I don’t really expect them to be able to transport a package across countries. The chances that’s legit are next to none.

I have come across legitimate companies that don’t use their own email so this in itself is not too much of a red flag. The red flag is the cost of $1020 and not accepting PayPal or Visa.

Let me rephrase that: A company that apparently has the means and money to ship across /countries/ that is just using gmail. I don’t mean this in the same way as small independent retailers that use gmail.

It is tricking. The Xpress Freight Services is in FL, but X-Press Freight FORWARDER Inc.(a bogus company) is in Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Check this http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=30872593

There are many scams out there. The most common scam is actually the fake IRS/Treasury Department Scam. I received one of these fake phone calls. The police said that because I did not fall for the scam no crime had taken place.