Commercial debt collection scam by Siwan Park of Renesas Electronics
Description of Potential Fraud:
A lawyer in Washington, DC has notified us that they have received an email from the purported Siwan Park of Renesas Electronics with regards to a commercial debt litigation 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: Siwan Park [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:11 PM
To: info
Subject: Legal Rep

Siwan Park an attorney of Jon Pin Kazutaka Law Office
firm here in Japan.We would like to know if you have conflict that
will prevent you from representing our client Renesas Electronics
Corporation, against an entity
in your jurisdiction.
This matter regards shipment and product’s standard. We have explore
all avenues to resolve this issue amicably, unfortunately we have not
progressed as expected.
If you require the name of the opposing party to conduct your
conflict check, please respond to our inquiry and we are ready to pay
your retainer fee immediately
Mr. Siwan Park Esq
Jon Pin Kazutaka Law Firm
NBF Hibiya Building 14F
1-1-7, Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0011, Japan
Tel:+81-3-3539-1371
Fax:+81-3-3939-1772
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March 29, 2013 at 2:31 pm, Tim Coleman said:
Sirs:
I am an attorney in the state of Washington. I was contacted via email by a Siwan Park regarding a purported collection matter on behalf of a Renesas Electronics Company. In the spirit of “if it sounds to good to be true it probably is” I decided to check out scams involving this “attorney” and company, and found your website. I don’t practice in Canada (although I did have the privilage of living and working there for a short while).
Tim Coleman
February 24, 2014 at 3:47 pm, Gerald Templeton said:
This came today 2 24 2014 with a new name attached to almost identical message…..
I’m Mr. Park Cheng an attorney of Park & Esaki Associate Law Office firm here
in Japan.We would like to know if you have conflict that will prevent you from
representing our client Renesas Electronics Corporation, against an entity in your
jurisdiction
This matter regards shipment and product’s standard. We have explore all
avenues to resolve this issue amicably, unfortunately we have not progressed
as expected.
If you require the name of the opposing party to conduct your conflict check,
please respond to our inquiry and we are ready to pay your retainer fee
immediately
Mr. Park Cheng
Park & Esaki Associate Law
NBF Hibiya Building 14F
1-1-7, Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0011, Japan
Tel:+81-3-3539-1371
Fax:+81-3-3939-1772
Email: [email protected]