by FraudInfo

Date First Reported: June 2013

Primary Name Associated: Jessica Li-Quang

Description of Potential Fraud:

fraud-warning

[Updated March 2014]

Five Ontario lawyers and several overeseas (Serbia, Ecuador, Venezuala, Spain) notified us that he received an email from the purported Daiki Izawa of Japan General Appliance with regards to a commercial debt collection scam. For examples of other names attached to this kind of fraud see our Confirmed Fraud Page. For an explanation of how this fraud works see our Fraud Fact Sheet.

Here is the initial email:

From: Brownson Co Ltd. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 10:02 AM
To:
Subject: Legal Inquiry

Dear Counsel,

I will like to know if your law firm can assist our company in a collection/litigation matter against a company for non payment of goods and services delivered. We have tried to no avail And we believe the sooner we involve a lawyer the easy it will be. Goods have been delivered there is no complain whatsoever. Non paying company has been a valuable customer of ours in the past so we hope we could have this matter resolved without litigation, we will like litigation to be our last option if other options have been exhausted. I will expect a response from you if this is your field of practice.

I will anticipate your prompt response.

Jessica Li-Quang.
General Manager
Brownson Co Ltd.
CHIBA-SHI-KU,
HUMANO-CHOU 109-8
JAPAN
Tel:+81 50 5539 6536
Tel:+81 50 5534 8060
[email protected]

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