The payment you cannot take back.
An advance to a supplier you have not met, in a jurisdiction where recovery is slow, is the moment most international buyers describe as the one they would do differently. Here is what can be established first.
You wire thirty percent against a proforma invoice. Then the replies slow down, then they stop.
It is a recognised enough problem to have its own committee
India's Foreign Trade Policy establishes a Committee on Quality Complaint and Trade Dispute across DGFT regional offices, specifically to receive complaints from foreign buyers. Its published categories include non-supply or partial supply of goods after an order has been confirmed. A state does not build a complaints apparatus across two dozen offices for something that rarely happens.
Recovery is not the plan you want to rely on
Once funds have moved to an overseas account, the realistic options are the supplier's goodwill, a dispute process measured in months, or your own bank's limited recourse. None of them is a substitute for having established who you were paying before you paid them.
The bank account is its own question
A company can be entirely real and the account details you were sent can still be wrong — changed at the last moment, sent from a compromised mailbox, or belonging to a different entity. Confirming that the account belongs to the company you contracted with is a separate check from confirming the company exists.
Before you commit.
Registration particulars, incorporation, registered address and whether filings are current.
India separates manufacturer exporters from merchant exporters. Both are legitimate. Which one you are dealing with changes what you should ask for.
The entity on the proforma invoice is not always the entity on the registration, and the difference matters when something goes wrong.
That the account presented for payment corresponds to the company you are contracting with, and that the details have not changed mid-conversation.
Evidence of prior consignments moving, rather than an assurance that they can.
What it cannot do.
None of this guarantees a supplier will perform. A company can be genuine, capable and properly documented and still miss a delivery. What it does is separate the risks you accepted knowingly from the ones you never saw.
Put the decision in front of us.
Tell us what you are buying and where you have got to. If verification is not the right next step, we will say so.