Delinquent Money Collection Scam

These Hangzhou guys are persistent. And they get around. A couple weeks ago, they were based in Taiwan. Now they are in China. Same business, though. Still "spinning yarn." I guess that is as accurate description of the business as we are likely to see. What amuses me is the part about "careful review ... search for a reliable firm..." etc. I'm a member of the Bar, but not in private practice. I guess that makes me reliably unavailable.
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This is an official requisition for your legal consultation
services on behalf of Hangzhou G & L Industry Co., Ltd.

We are based in China and our principal activity is
manufacturing cotton yarn,mixed spinning yarn, chemical fiber
yarn, embryo cloth, RTW clothes and knitwear.Other activities
include constructing, leasing and selling residential and
commercial buildings and provision of investment services We
are presently incapacitated due to international legal
boundaries to exert pressure on our delinquent customers in
USA and we request for your services accordingly.

We got your contact information from the state of USA lawyers
Directory as a result of our search for a reliable firm or
individual to provide legal services as requested. After a
careful review of your profile as well as your qualification
and experience, we are of the opinion that your are capable
and qualified to provide the legal services as requested.

Please accept my sincerest appreciation on behalf of
Hangzhou G & L Industry Co., Ltd.,in advance for your
willingness to render your services as we look forward
to your prompt response to our request.Thank you.

Mr Eric Xu
Managing Director
Hangzhou G & L Industry Co., Ltd.

Thanks for posting, raloly. This fake debt collection scam is quite prolific.

I was contacted by "William Rueyfa" regarding the scam to collect money on the sale of textiles. (It was posted on this site a couple of weeks ago.) I was bored and played along for a short while. I knew what the scam was. The real company that they picked as owing them $800,000 is a guy operating out of his house doing machine embroidery. D&B listed him as having annual revenue of $57,000. When I pointed this out the "William Rueyfa" he assured me that he had identified the correct debtor.

Shortly thereafter, I received this post, which I am sure is more of the same nonsense.

Thai Thaworn Metal Co. Ltd.
1048/12 soi Ronkaew, Bukkalo
Thonburi, Thailand
[email protected]

Attention: Counsel,

We the management of Thai Thaworn Metal Co. Ltd., require your legal representation for our American Customers. Thai Thaworn Metal Co. Ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of chemical, we are been owed payment on a shipment that we made to a customer in America in June 2008 and now seeking advice and possible representation in litigation against the non-paying company.

We are of the opinion that the ability to consolidate payments from America will eradicate delays due to inter-continental monetary transaction between the Asia and America. We understand that a proper Attorney Client Retainer will provide the necessary authorization and we are most inclined to commence talks as soon as possible.

Your consideration of our request is highly anticipated and we look forward to your prompt response.

Sincerely,

Young Yen,
Managing Director.
Thai Thaworn Metal Co. Ltd.

Hi MichiganAttorney, Welcome to Scamwarners and thank you for posting the information!

Submitted by a visitor to scamwarners, this is yet another scam email in the style particular to this thread.

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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:09:49 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Inquiry


Attn Counsel

The management of Motor Electric Manufacturing Company Ltd.requires your
legal representation for our North American delinquent Customers. We are
of the opinion that a reputable attorney is required to represent us in
North
America in order for us to recover monies due to our organization by
overseas
customers, and as well follow up with these accounts. In order to achieve
these objectives a good and reputable law firm like yours will be required
to handle this service.

We understand that a proper Attorney Client agreement must be entered into
by both parties.This will be done immediately we receive your letter of
acceptance.
Attorney, Your questions regarding this Proposal is welcome. Once more thank
you for taking time from your busy Schedule to read this mail.

Liu Chan
President
Motor Electric Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Phone/Fax:852 2480 5592
You are advised to send your reply to the company email
address:[email protected]

Shortly thereafter, I received this post, which I am sure is more of the same nonsense.

I agree. And very likely from the same scammer using a different email address. Playing along with the first scam may have given the scammer the impression you are vulnerable. Or even put you on a sucker list. You aren't of course but the scammer doesn't know that.

This one turned up in my spare email account. I neither work in the legal field nor live in North America. The scammer claims to be in China. The IP puts him in Nigeria.

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:06:55 +0800 (MYT)
Subject: Counsel Needed!!!
From: "Hebei-Hung Machinery Ltd" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]



Hebei Hung Machinery Ltd
NO.118 Huashan Road Maanshan
Anhui 243013, China .
Email: [email protected]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Hebei-Hung Machinery Co.Ltd of Ningbo ,Zhejiang Province, in the southeast
of China is in need of Professionals and corporate bodies especially
Lawyers,Accountants,Nurses,Cheffs etc in the Americas to represent its
interests with some companies that export products from China and
South-Korea to continents like North America/South America,Western Europe
in particular.We got your contact details from your local States chamber
of commerce.If you are not in position to represent us at the moment
kindly advice immediately.After a careful review,we decided to contact you
to represent our company in North America and other parts of the United
States.

Retainership/Agents will act as intermediaries between us and customers in
their country of residence.You shall be paid a commssion between 12%-15%
for your service(s).If you're interested, We are most inclined to commence
talks with you as soon as possible. We shall bring you into a detailed
picture of what your responsibility is when we receive your response.Your
consideration to our request is highly anticipated and if you are
interested please send your Full names,address,Occupation,phone/cellphone
number and fax to Mr.Douglas S Hebei in charge of North American
operations at: [email protected]

Thank you.
Yours Truely,
Cindy (company secretary),
for Hebei -Hung Mech Ltd.

I'm a small town lawyer in Alberta, Canada, and have today received the message posted by Arnold on the 3rd, from "Mr. Chen Yu." The lesson for us is that everyone's a target, not just the big city firms, and yes, it can happen to us if we're not careful. Thanks to the posters and this service: a google search of Voith Fabrics pulled up your site and easily confirmed my suspicions.

Hi Dave

Welcome to Scamwarners

I am glad our site and great support team members were able to provide information to help you

If you have any questions please feel free to ask

I'm an attorney at a small firm located in California and our firm also received these same emails. We had posted ads on Craigslist and other online classifieds for commercial debt collection work. Set forth below is (a) the first email I received from Chen Yu who first claims to be the General Manager of Voith Fabrics Stubbins Limited, and (b) the second email I received from Chen Yu who claims to be the President of the company. The email addresses used by this individual are: [email protected] and [email protected].

Attention Counsel:

Top of the day to you Attorney,The management of Voith Fabrics Stubbins Limited requires yourlegal representation as regards Litigation and collection for our North American delinquent Customers.In order to achieve these objectives a good and reputable Attorney/Law firm will be required to handle this service in North America for us to recover monies due to our organization by overseas customers.Due to the urgency of this matter If you are in the position to represent us at the moment kindly advice immediately.Once more thank you for taking time from your busy Schedule to read this mail.


Sincerely,

Mr.Chen Yu
General Manager
Voith Fabrics Stubbins Limited
Phone :+44 703 199 0751

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Attention [NAME OMITTED BY ME],

Top of the day to you Attorney. Sequel to your recent mail,first I must thank you for your interest in this endeavour but before we commence it will be better you know more about our company,Voith Fabrics Stubbins Ltd is a manufacturing company and We are experts in the sales of Textile materials; we export Textile and Fabrics into North America, Australia, Asia and parts of Europe. We are searching for a reputable Attorney/Law Firm who can represent our company and help us establish a Medium of getting our funds from our customers in North America.

We have discovered that past dues are over $5,000,000.00 in 4 State including California also understand that this customers are one of our biggest customers and we do not intend to lose them or break the relationship with them. So we will have to be concious with the way we will handle this transaction. Hope you can act accordingly. The debt collection will be on an installement payment on a monthly basis, which we have agreed to, but to be represented/collected by an attorney to avoid any future payment delay. Find in the attachment is our companys scanned document.

Below are the areas we would require your expertise:

1) Provide legal consultation, collections of delinquent accounts,required representation / bring actions in court against the delinquent customers based on agreed amount per hour or percentage on collection made.

We will provide you with a retainer fee of $10,000.00 and You would be paid 10% of the total sum you collect on behalf of my company in every transaction that is passed through you to our company as our Legal representative. We understand that a proper Attorney Client agreement must be entered into by both parties so we want you to send us your standard letter of engagement or retainer fee agreement for us to review and sign, then we will provide you with the retainer fee and the deliquent accounts as when due.

Please accept my sincere appreciation for your willingness to render your services, as we look forward to your prompt response to my email. If you have any questions, you can contact me personally anytime by email and send us your retainer fee agreement for our review.

I await your prompt response.

Sincerely,
Mr.Chen Yu
General Manager
Voith Fabrics Stubbins Limited
Stubbins Vale Mill
Stubbins Vale Road Bury,
Lancashire BL0 0NT
United Kingdom
Phone :+44 703 199 0751
Fax : +44 870 479 9755

Hi and welcome to Scamwarners.

Thank you very much for the additional information, it will certainly help to prevent others from being scammed.

I have sent you a Private Message, please read and action it

Thanks to everyone for all the help!

This one has to be the laziest scammer yet:

From: jjyengine Ltd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:46 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Attention Counsel:

My Name is Minoru Komatsu President of jjyengine Ltd. We need legal
service in Collection/litigation.

Please let us know if you can be of help.

Minoru Komatsu

jjyengine Ltd
Address: No.49 Huanghai Road(E)
Yancheng City China

Tel:+85-230-162114
Fax:+85-230-162114
E-Mail: [email protected]

Thanks everybody for posting about these. Two versions of the same scam. I am posting both, just in case. Just out of curiosity, I had to respond and see what they said. Both requested that I send a standard retainer agreement "immediately". The second email from Mr. Chen Yu, stated that they were going to send me a $5,000 retainer. I have been practicing for over 10 years and never in the history of my practice has a client simply volunteered to send me a check without so much as a conversation. Thanks again all.

First Email

From: Managing Director of Higrade(Qingdao) Moulds & Products Co., Ltd. [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:18 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Dear Counsel ( Reply to [email protected] )??????

Dear Counsel,

I am sending this email as a mutual introduction. Mrs Monica Wong is the
Managing Director of Higrade(Qingdao) Moulds & Products Co., Ltd.

Higrade(Qingdao) Moulds & Products Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer and supplier of steel, coils and transformers. Higrade(Qingdao) Moulds & Products Co., Ltd.

is owed payment on shipments that they made to customers here in the US
from June 2008. The company is now seeking advice and possible
representation in litigation against the non-paying companies in your
state. I can not handle this matter at this point because it is out of
our jurisdiction. I have represented this company in the past, therefore
I am assisting them in finding an attorney in the required state.

Kindly contact Mrs. Monica Wong if you are interested in representing
them. Below is her contact information as follows:

Monica Wong
Higrade(Qingdao) Moulds & Products Co., Ltd.
[email protected]

I encourage you to contact one another to see if this is a situation where you can work together. Should you have any questions please contact my office at

the below noted information.

Sincerely,
Alex Morgan, Esq
[email protected]

Second Email

From: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:12 PM
Subject: RE: COUNSEL


Good day,Our company has decided to contact your Lawfirm as regards Litigation
and collection issue with someof our indebted customers within your region.To
achieve these objectives a good Attorney/Law firm will be required to handle
this service.If interested get back Via Email:
[email protected]

Mr.Chen Yu
General Manager
Voith Fabrics StubbinsLimited

Welcome to Scamwarners jobten.

Thank You for posting this information - it will alert and save others from being scammed. Well Done

I guess Patrick has moved. Here is the email I just received.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:20:11 -0500
From: patrick Chan <[email protected]>
To: [ME - email removed]

Comments:
Attention Counsel
I have previously sent you an email, please confirm the receipt of this mail
due to the urgency of this matter. If you are not in position to represent
us at the moment kindly advice immediately. After a careful review, we
decided to contact you to represent our company in North America.
Carmel Manufacturing Pte Ltd is a manufacturing company in Asia We would require
your legal representation for our North American delinquent Customers. We
are of the opinion that a reputable attorney is required to represent us in
North America in order for us to recover monies due to our organization by
overseas customers, and as well follow up with these accounts. In order to
achieve these objectives a good and reputable law firm like yours will be
required to handle this service. We understand that a proper Attorney Client
agreement must be entered into by both parties. This will be done
immediately we receive your letter of acceptance.

Awaiting Response.

Regards

Patrick Chan


Preferred Contact Method: email
Name: patrick Chan
Company:
Address:
City:
State: Alabama
Zip:
Phone: 656 211 2116
Fax:
email: [email protected]