Celestin Petroleum Company / Scam Fraud

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Company Name: Celestin Petroleum Company,

Adress: 157 South Street, Centurion 157,  Country: South Africa.
Skype: celestinpetroleum
Tel: +27 782607329
Fax: +27 782607329
Email: celestinpc@ymail.com
Email: ceo@celestinpetroleum.com
Website: http://www.celestinpetroleum.com/ (temporal)

We are one of Chinese Company, and we want to buy some Oil chemical, and search on website, found the information which this company posted in the www1.tradekey.com.

They quote good price to us, so we are very interested in their goods, but because it is a big business, So we decide asked them send some sample to us. They asked us to pay $240 For post cost and $730 for the Insurance if we want sample. We agreed, but they asked us must pay this $970 to his own Bank account, as bellow:

Payment should be made cash via Western Union to the name and details below:

name: Nhassengo Alves Angelo
first name:     Nhassengo
last name:     Alves Angelo
City:              Johannesburg
country:        South Africa
test question: WHO
answer: CPCtelephone: +27 782607329
NB: Name should be in this order Nhassengo Alves Angelo, and NOT Alves Angelo Nhassengo

We pay the $970 to them from the Bank, but when we ask for the sample from them, they told us, if we want get the sample must pay a lot of money for the REACH Certification. As everyone Know, the Reach certification is factory apply it for all customer, but they ask us to pay it, and very expensive. Because we very want the sample and to do this business, so we talked with them, they send mail to us AS bellow:

Dear,
Yes as soon as you send the money $240 tomorrow I assure and ensure that we send the new sample, and delivery will be direct.
We promise that if we do not send the sample we shall refund your $970 + $240
We shall do everything as you have said, just send the $240 early 1st thing tomorrow, scan the Western Union receipt and send to us.Best Regards
Bekamp Butames,
CEO,

Then we send $240 to them again, but two days later, they send us another mail as bellow:

Dear Sir,
They too are requesting for the $730 Insurance Fee.
It is nation wide decree, national decree, it applies to all parcel and sample transport.
But they wont ask for REACH.
So all you have to pay is $730 and I will give you the tracking number, and in 8 days time you will receive the sample directly.Best Regards
Bekamp Butames,
CEO,

Because they find a lot of reason to ask we send money time one time, so we think they must be cheater, and refuse to send the money to them again, and asked them keep his words to send back the $970 + $240 to us, but they refused,

So we do some work as below:

First: we asked The officer who worked in Embassy of the P.R.China in South Africa 中国驻南非大使馆 help us checked this company, and the officer asked the Celestin Petroleum Company’s CEO come to Embassy of the P.R.China in South Africa office to meet with him, but when we send mail to this company , They don’t dear to go there.

The Second: We asked our friend go to their office to check, and don’t find this company in their Adress: 157 South Street, Centurion 157,  Country: South Africa. The bellow information is our friend give us:

I have to inform you that from my initial investigation, this does not seem like a legitimate company. They do not answer their phone, they do not have a proper website, there are rumours this is a scam company, Their operation does not seem kosher at all. I will get some people to check them out as I would not like to give you misleading information.

 my friends reply

The Third: Their Tel No. is nobody answer for it, just let you leave message in it, so it is just for cheater.

The Fourth: We checked the document which they said they registered in the government, and find there some mistake in it, and find , it is Forged, no this company in fact. You can check it weather it is ture or not yourself as bellow:

The fifth: We use another company to ask for PI from them, They send the PI , but the Bank information is not for Celestin Petroleum Company, just as bellow:

Bank Name: NedBank

Account Name: A A N

Account Number: 1019761202

Branch Code: 19160500

Swift Code: NEDSZAJJ

Bank Address : Johannesburg

Country: South Africa 

Remember account name is just and simply A A N


Best Regards

The Sixth: If you study the information they posted on the internets, you can found the all they posted by the last of 2011, if they are real a big and long history company, won’t so short time.

The Seventh: What ever you asked to buy Solid goods or Liquid goods, they all told you that:

Packing in 50 kg drums, 200 kg drums, 250 kg drums, 1 MT pe bags, 25 MT flexitanks, or as preferred by you 

 Payment term is %20 T/T advanced upfront now after against Proforma Invoice,30% T/T against Bill of Lading and Shipping documents and later the balance %50 T/T at sight when goods have been delivered and checked at destination port.

Because above reason and after we carefully investigated of this company , we confirmed it is a big cheater, and don’t keep his words as he said , so please very carefully, don’t do any business with them, in order to you are not be cheated.