yeah this type of stuff is happening very frequently, to get safe from this type you should alway see wether the company is register or not, they maye show fake papers, so you should always double check things. Every state has their business entity search which tell is this name of the company is there or not in the state, and whole details of the company...
just for example :- let imagine i am the onwer of the business in maine. I had requriement of some material, a persomn approches me and tell he is the owner or the manager of the xyz company and they got to know we are in search of some material. they will provied it in less then market price but they for that they need 30% advance. But before providing advance i will ask for the details of the company during the talk in some how that he didn't reconized that he is giving me the info about his company and what is name of the company. when is saying all that i will act like i am doing my work while listening to him, But i am not working. I have open maine business entity search page which show me that is this name is the company is taken or not, if taken ,who is the owner, where exactlly the company is and what type of comapny that is. and if the boy is saying lie he will be caught, and by chance evrything matches, i would like to vist the company and will pay them after the delivery.... or will pay 30% when i see packaging and other after delivery.
