Yunnan Dongyuan Construction & Engineering Limited Kunming Interior Design Fraud - Fengyuan Villa kunming yunnan

I am in the United States, I have a small/med sized Interior Design firm in Aug 2014 I was contacted by Mr Chen Wisdom with the opportunity to complete interior design drawings for 56 luxury villas in Kunming.

Mr. Chen, contacted me through our business website.

Like many of our larger new jobs, we are expected to provide our own transportation to the first meeting. I did this by flying from San Francisco to Kunming to meet with the fraudulent company. Once I arrived2rgvv fvff I was picked up by a driver and taken to my hotel, the next morning Mr Chen met with me to review the contract and the site plans. I was then taken to lunch and we discussed any changes that would need to be agreed upon with the extensive contract (written in english). At the end of lunch I was told there are some Chinese cultural differences that we must honor and one is providing gifts to the local authorities and banker. They suggested I buy 50-60 cartons of very high end cigarettes for this purpose.

At this point I had my first hint that something felt odd, but then the day was filled with a site visit, a presentation in a large conference room of my portfolio and their feedback on the likes/dislikes of the interior design. So I felt maybe they were trying to get some cigarettes from me but the project of designing 56 luxury villas in Kunming seemed legit.

The next day I met more members of the organization and we signed the contract, took celebratory photos and had a dinner with 5-6 other people that evening. I was never asked to pay for any transportation or meals/drinks while in Kunming as the host paid for these items.

Upon getting back to the US, I provided my banking information for the wire transfer of the first payment of 20% of the project before starting the work. The next few emails were from Liu Wei Bing, Financial Manager of Yunnan Dongyuan Construction& Engineering Limited and this is when I knew they had an elaborate scam going with interior designers. They wanted me to provide a remittance fee to Liu Wei Bing's bank account, since this couldn't be paid from their 'corporate account'.

I had done extensive research before buying my plane ticket and couldn't find any negative or contrary information about the project, so I was optimistic about the project. But after receiving the emails where they are asking for large sums to be deposited to their private bank accounts I then began to search again and this new thread popped up.

I'm not sure what can be done to these people from so far away, but I'm in hopes this post will help enlighten others of the scam and fraud that these people are doing in Kunming under the disguise of developers looking for interior design or interior decoration from foreign companies.