How to spot a PO/RFQ scam easy?
We seen many PO SCAMS to know, most SMMEs can not believe scammers can be this good, well they are, but there is an easy to spot PO/RFQ scam, just read and learn the easy technique.
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Spot a Request For Quotation("RFQ")/Purchase Order Scam/Fraud Easy!
How to spot a RFQ/purchase order scam easy?
SMMEs are getting scammed by fraudsters on a daily basis in South Africa. Pay attention to the email address from which the request for quotation("RFQ")/purchase order comes from. An SMME recently contacted MarketDirect Purchase Order Funding (Click To Apply For Funding) service seeking funding for a purchase order "awarded" by Steve Biko Academic Hospital, we simply saw very easily that it is a scam Request For Quotation("RFQ") and Purchase Order by looking at the email address from where it is coming from, just by analysing the email address from which the RFQ and PO came from.
STEP 1: Copy into your internet browser the part after the "@" sign, you lend at government website if not it is scam.
STEP 2: We copied and pasted "doh-govza.org" into our internet browser and have a look below where that took us, clearly that is not a government website:
CONCLUSION:
The scammers/fraudsters have no website, the website shown above clearly is not of government but it is a service where the scammers/fraudsters registered their website domain,
"doh-govza.org", and is not like any of the real department of health website which usually end with
" .gov.za " for instance
"health.gov.za".
There you have it! A simple test to see if the Request For Quotation (RFQ) or Purchase Order(PO) you receive via email is scam or real, simply take the part after "@" symbol of an email address the RFQ is coming from and put it on your internet web browser it should lead you to a real government website!