Thanks for the your responds, our debtor information is below the debt owe $1,200,000.00, We like to know if you have conflict that will prevent you from representing us against Allied Electronics, Inc. We have explored all avenues to resolve this issue amicably, unfortunately we have not progressed as expected.
Debtor
Allied Electronics, Inc.
19625 61st Avenue S # C105
Kent, WA 98032
Please advise us on your retainer fees for collection and send us retainer agreement ( engagement letter) looking forward hearing from you.
Regards
Ray Aubrey (President)
Electronic Resources, Inc
534 Ohohia Street # A
Honolulu, HI 96819-1989
XXXXXX
On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Ray Aubrey<rayaubreyray@gmail.com> wrote:
We are Electronic Resources Inc in Honolulu, Hawaii a private company categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies. We are established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection matter in your area.
Please advice is you are taking on new case at this moment its very urgent.
Yours Sincerely
Ray Aubrey (President)
Electronic Resources, Inc.
534 Ohohia Street # A
Honolulu, HI 96819-1989
I just received the third version today. I am an attorney in WA.
ReplyDeleteI just received one like this - July 19, 2012
ReplyDeleteI am an attorney in NY reeived identical emails and said I wouldn't accept case because of fraudulent email, and he said he's not fraudulent, so I came to look up the company, and saw the post. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI got this one today:
ReplyDeleteWe are Electronic Resources Inc in Honolulu, Hawaii a private company categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies. We are established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection matter in your area.
Please advice if you are taking on new case, it's very urgent.
Ray Aubrey (President)
Electronic Resources, Inc
534 Ohohia Street # A
Honolulu, HI 96819-1989
Email: rayaubrey6@gmail.com
I received the same email and asked him for documents. "Ray" actually sent me what appears to be a signed contract between Electronic Resources, Inc. and the "debtor" Electronic Specialist LLC, as well as an invoice showing a bunch of equipment valued at $1.2 million. Surprisingly legit looking. Obviously I'm not sending him any engagement letter or anything else as I'm sure it's a fraud. But can someone explain how this or similar schemes are supposed to work?
ReplyDeleteI also received the same "pitch" as noted above. My office is located in Hanover, Pennsylvania. When I requested more information, I was sent the second email, also with no phone number attached. Because I was suspicious I Googled their address and found these posts. Yes, lawyers can be scammed, but one would have to be both greedy, as well as short sighted, to fall for this particular scam.
ReplyDeleteI am an attorney in CT. Here is what I received on July 25, 2012. See below. I've seen this before.
ReplyDeleteThe way I believe this works is that you will send him a fee agreement, he will sign and return with a real looking, but bogus, contract. He will tell you he was just offered a settlement, or full payment, but wants it to go through your office. He will send you, or the debtor will send you, a very real looking bank check. You deposit into your trust account. In a day or two your bank makes the funds available to you. He tells you that he needs the funds wired to him urgently, usually over seas, you think the funds are good, so you wire him, then the real looking bank check you deposited bounces, and you are stuck holding the bag. You are responsible for your trust account and your bank will want its money back from you. You also bounced your trust account and have to deal with disciplinary authorities. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM!!!
Ken
******************************************************************
Dear Attorney,
Thanks for your response, the debt owed is $650,000.00. We like to
know if you have conflict that will prevent you from representing
Electronic Resources, Inc, against Johnson Electric Company Inc. We
have explored all avenues to resolve this issue amicably,
unfortunately we have not progressed as expected.
Debtor
Johnson Electric Company Inc
265 Hathaway Drive # 1
Stratford, CT
What is the flat rate for your initial retainer fee on collection
matter. Please send me your retainer agreement to enable us proceed
with the matter.
Looking forward hearing from you.
Ray Aubrey (President)
Electronic Resources, Inc
534 Ohohia Street # A
Honolulu, HI 96819-1989
Received this one this evening:
ReplyDeleteWe are Keener Technologies, Inc Honolulu, Hawaii a private company categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies.
We are established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection matter of $1,200,000.00 in your area.
Please send us your retainer agreement and advice on your retainer fees, we shall make payment by wire transfer only.
Thomas Keener (President)
Keener Technologies, Inc
3375 Koapaka Street F22017
Honolulu, HI 96819-1800
thomaskeener6@gmail.com
We are an International Fraud Examiner group. We received the same email and we have reported this suspicious activity for addition to the WATCH LIST. Our trace route results indicate they are operating out of Mountain View California.
Deletekeener.tech12@gmail.com is the email address they are currently using.
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The legitimate company, Electronic Resources, Inc. of Honolulu, Hawaii is a very upstanding professional company, and not a party to any of these emails schemes. Attornies should be a bit more careful before they take the bait from scammers that use this and other legitimate companies to try to defraud attorneys all over the country. Electronic Resources, Inc. had absolutely nothing to do with such schemes.
DeleteJust got this one today:
ReplyDeleteThomas
Keener
3375 Koapaka Street F22017
Honolulu, HI
HI
96819-1800
614 2388576
keenetechnologies@techie.com
We are Keener Technologies, Inc Honolulu, Hawaii a private company categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies. We are established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection matter of $1,200,000.00 in your area. Please send us your retainer agreement and advice on your retainer fees, we shall make payment by wire transfer only. Thomas Keener (President) Keener Technologies, Inc 3375 Koapaka Street F22017 Honolulu, HI 96819-1800 Email: keenetechnologies@techie.com
This scamming is actually a check kiting scheme where the perpetrator sends an attorney a check from a Canadian bank for a retainer to be deposited in the attorney's trust fund. Then before it clears...usually some 2 weeks or less they ask for a refund all or part. When the check doesn't clear the attorney is out the money.
ReplyDeleteJust received the same letter today for the $1,200,000 against a Maryland Debtor. You would think that they would get better at this.
ReplyDeleteAs the Regulator for Collection Agents in our province, I replied that our "Consumer Protection" area deals with credit concerns through the Ministry of Justice... I thought it was likely some kind of scam as I got no reply!
ReplyDeleteWe are electronics company here in Japan and We have a collection matter in your area, if you are interested let us know. We will like to know if you will be available / interested in representing our company on legal matters.
ReplyDeletePlease advise us on your retainer agreement and fees.
Nagai Seiichi / Takashi Sato
Sanwa ElectronicInstrument Co., Ltd
1-2-50, Yoshidahonmachi,
Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Telephone: 81-72-9621277
Fax: 81-72-9642831
Email: seiichin62@gmail.com.
We are electronics company here in Japan and We have a collection matter in your area, if you are interested let us know. We will like to know if you will be available / interested in representing our company on legal matters.
ReplyDeletePlease advise us on your retainer agreement and fees.
Nagai Seiichi / Takashi Sato
Sanwa ElectronicInstrument Co., Ltd
1-2-50, Yoshidahonmachi,
Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Telephone: 81-72-9621277
Fax: 81-72-9642831
Email: seiichin62@gmail.com.
We got this one today:
ReplyDeleteHello dear attorney
We are Keener Technologies Inc. Honolulu, Hawaii a private company
categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies. We are
established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection
matter of $1,200,000.00 in your area. Please send us your retainer
agreement and advice on your retainer fees.
Thomas Keener (President)
Keener Technologies Inc.
3375 Koapaka Street F22017
Honolulu, HI 96819-1800
Keener Technologies Inc
I received the same Keener Tech email today.
ReplyDeleteWe are Keener Technologies, Inc Honolulu, Hawaii a private company categorized under Wholesale Electronic Equipment and Supplies. We are established in 1989 and incorporated in Hawaii. We have a collection matter of $1,200,000.00 in your area. Please send us your retainer agreement and advice on your retainer fees, we shall make payment by wire transfer only. Thomas Keener (President) Keener Technologies, Inc 3375 Koapaka Street F22017 Honolulu, HI 96819-1800 Email: keener.thomas@techie.com
ReplyDelete...Scam
We are electronics company base here in Japan and We have a payment collection matter in your area, if you are interested let us know. We will like to know if you will be available / interested in representing our company on legal matters, so that we can forward to attention our debtor informations for conflict check.
ReplyDeletePlease advise us on your retainer agreement and fees.
Regards
Seiichi Nagai
Vice President - Marketing
Sanwa Electronic Instrument Co., Ltd
1-2-50, Yoshidahonmachi,
Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Our firm received the following e-mail:
ReplyDeleteSubject: Re: Collection Matter
We have a debt payment collection matter in your area, We are electronics company based in Japan. We will like to know if you will be available / interested in representing our company on litigation matter, so that we can forward to attention our debtor informations for conflict check.
Regards
Soho Takashi
Vice President – Marketing
Kyodo International
Miyazaki-dai, Miyamae-ku
Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa-ken,
216-0033 Japan
Tel: +81-44-853-2958
Email: kyodo_international@inbox.com
In this regard, we correspondence that included information from Mr. Soto Takashi and Mr. Seiichi Nagai on behalf of Kyodo International. As you can see, they are the same names on behalf of Sanwa.
The one that came to my offce Oct. 7th in Madison, IN is from Soho Takashi of Kyodo International. I asked for info on the "debtor" to do a conflicts check and recieved a reply that it was "Paxton & Parker Co." in Speedway, IN. I took no other action. Today I recieved a check for the pay-off of the account of $282,800 made out to me drawn on a Canadian Bank. The scam here is the check is a forgery and I would be stuck if I was stupid enough to deposit it.
ReplyDeleteI also got one from Soho Takashi above today and here is another I got last week. After advising Seiji Noma of no conflict, days later a Canadian "check" arrives in a Canadian postmarked envelope with a return address of the CT address below. Turns out that Seiji Noma is the founder of Kodansha, but he passed away years ago. The received correspondence is below.
ReplyDeleteWe are media publisher company, we have a breach of intellectual property agreement matter in your jurisdiction, if you are interested we can forward you the agreement and other party information for your review to enable you run a conflict check.
Regards
Seiji Noma
Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
12-21 Otowa 2-chome Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan 112-8001
Telephone: +81 (0)3/53 95 35 76
sjinoma@gmail.com
Thank you very much for your responds, below is the other party information who as not settle the payment of $1,200,000.00 according to the termination term in the intellectual property agreement we both has signed, we can forward you the documentation, Creative Images., 75 Woodland St, Manchester CT 06042-3009
Please run a conflict check, forward us engagement letter if you have no conflict.
We are delighted to inform you that we received a message from our debtor, they have issued a payment of $650,000.00 to your firm as a part of the money owed to our company to avoid litigation brought against them and to pay the balance October ending , 2012, they became scared when we notify them of our plan to seek legal advice on the matter.
You will have your retainer fee deducted from this sum and this will give us a good note to start off as agreed by my board of directors, please we should pause any action at this time since payment as been issued.
Thanks for the responds, I am the president of Kodansha Ltd., did you receive any payment?
Best Regard
Seiji Noma
Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
12-21 Otowa 2-chome Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan 112-8001
Telephone: +81 (0)3/53 95 35 76
I also got hit with a near identical permutation of the scam described above. Strangely, it came to my personal e-mail address. My personal e-mail address is only listed on my resume, which I otherwise believed to be confidential. However, I did recently submit my resume, as required, to an online jobs databank to collect unemployment. I suspect that scammers may be hunting for targets amongst the ranks of the unemployed - we tend to be younger, less experienced, and most likely under serious financial pressure - in other words, we are perfect targets for these jerks. In any event, keep your wits about you . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm based in Southern California.
The e-mail:
We are media publisher company here in Japan and we have Intellectual Property agreement matter in your State.
Please advise us on your standard retainer fee so that we can forward you the agreement for your review and run a conflict check.
Yours Sincerely
Mr. Yasuhiro Tominaga
Shinsei Publishing Co., Ltd.
4-7-6, Taito, Taito-ku,
Tokyo 110-0016
TEL: 03-3831-0743
Email;shinseijpp@blumail.org
http://www.shin-sei.co.jp
and then:
Thank you very much for your responds, below is the opposing company information who as not settle the payment of $1,200,000.00 according to the termination term in the intellectual property agreement we both has signed, we can forward you the documentation.
Other Party
Novoye Russkoye Slovo Pubg
350 5th Ave # 501
New York NY 10118-0501
Please run a conflict check and send us retainer agreement ( engagement letter) as soon as you are clear with the conflict check, looking forward hearing from you.
Yours Sincerely
Mr. Yasuhiro Tominaga
Shinsei Publishing Co., Ltd.
4-7-6, Taito, Taito-ku,
Tokyo 110-0016
TEL: 03-3831-0743
Email;shinseijpp@blumail.org
http://www.shin-sei.co.jp
And this point, I asked him for additional detail, including how he obtained my personal e-mail address, and he went radio silent.
Hello: I have been receiving emails exactly like the one posted above from Seiji Noma. I did send the retainer, however, looked up the company and found (as noted above) that Seiji Noma has been dead for a while. I asked lots of questions, and none of them were answered. Then I recieved that settlement was forthcoming and I should wait for instructions. Thank God I read these posts. I have informed the scammers that I am aware. But as attorney, can we report these scams to our licensing board so that they can issue a warning to their attorney members? Also, can we not inform our State's AG of the same? Thank you all for posting your experiences!! This is what they sent to me this morning:
ReplyDeleteWe are delighted to inform you that we received a message from our target company, they have issued a payment of $350,000.00 to your firm as a part of the money owed to our company to avoid litigation, the balance will be paid in February 2013.
You will have your retainer fee deducted from this sum and this will give us a good note to start off as agreed by my board of directors, please we should pause any action at this time since payment as been issued.
Best Regard,
Seiji Noma
Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
12-21 Otowa 2-chome Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan 112-8001
Telephone: +81 (0)3/53 95 35 76
sjinoma@gmail.com
Thanks for your mail, I will phone you once we back in Japan on the 30th January 2013, we should pause any action at the moment.
Regards
Seiji Noma
Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
12-21 Otowa 2-chome Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan 112-8001
Telephone: +81 (0)3/53 95 35 76
sjinoma@gmail.com
Received this one today from: Edward Scholes [scholesedw@gmail.com]
ReplyDeleteContract Dispute
We seek an attorney who handles breach of contract matters.Let us know if your firm takes such cases.
Thank you
Edward Scholes
Received the same thing from Ed Scholes:
DeleteE-mail Address:
scholesedward144@yahoo.co.uk
Subject:
Contract Dispute
Brief description of your legal issue:
We seek an attorney who handles breach of contract matters
.Let us know if your firm takes such cases.
Thank you
Edward Scholes
Same thing from sedward817@yahoo.co.uk sent to a Western Australian law firm.
DeleteReceived a similar one from Edward Scholes [edwardscholes456@gmail.com] for a contract dispute.
DeleteDear Counsel,
DeleteWe have a breach of contract issue, and would be glad if you let us know if you handle such case.
Thank you
Edward G Scholes.
same email sent to a lawyer in Africa.
Hi, I'm an attorney in Federal Way, WA. I too received an "Edward Scholes" email, yesterday, from "edwardscholes@hotmail.com". I suspected a scam but followed up out of curiosity and today received a package of documents and better-grammar-than-typical-for-scam request for information about my firm and my experience. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteI received the following today from Edward Scholes here in Kansas City.
ReplyDelete"edwardscholes405@gmail.com"
We seek an attorney who handles breach of contract matters.Let us know if your firm takes such cases.
Thank you.
Edward Scholes
Attorney here in NC. Also received the identical email from Edward Scholes (scholesedw@gmail.com), but if you look at the "reply to", the address is scholes_e@yahoo.co.uk. So, knowing it was probably a scam, sent reply to BOTH emails and said call our offices for a consult, but didn't provide my office information. They only had our email. Sad to say, Ed didn't call!
ReplyDeleteReceived the same email today in Michigan from the following email addresses: edwardscholes17@hotmail.com; edwardscholes517@yahoo.co.uk.
ReplyDeleteI need a breach of contract lawyer to assist me with a legal matter.
Thank you.
Edward Scholes
After asking what WASHINGTON county his case was in, I received this:
ReplyDelete"Thanks for your response,
We are hours ahead of your time in the united states kindly let me know if is ok for me to call you by next week Tuesday 1pm my time or i can simply email my case to you for your review.
Regards,
Edward Scholes
Managing Director
J&A Mcdougalls ltd
32 Combie Street
Oban PA34 4HT,United Kingdom
TEL:01622 37 0798"
My guess is this is his canned response to any email. We're not going to swing at this pitch.
We would like to thank you for your response to our inquiry for legal services.
ReplyDeleteHowever, We wish to inform you that we would be needing your firms legal help to assist us with a breach of contract matter and also retrieve funds owed to our company. We ordered goods from Lowe’s Companies, Inc. And was asked to make a 50% down payment for goods to be delivered to us and that we did and up till date no goods were delivered. We asked for a refund and they made a part payment and after that no other payment was made. We seek legal help from your firm to help us collect these funds owed to our company as we do not wish to go any further with the said transaction. We have made several attempts in the past to collect these funds which all ended negatively.
We are aware that a conflict search would need to be done. Please find below details of the owing company.
Here is the name of our supplier for your conflict check of interest-
Lowe’s Companies, Inc
701 North Academy Boulevard
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
Attached to this email you will find attached copy of contract, email correspondence and proof of payment for your perusal. We are prepared to pay a reasonable retainer fee for this service as soon as our board gets to review the terms of your engagement. So please have that sent to my attention via email if this is a case you are willing to handle.
What we require from your firm is to Provide legal advice, collect funds owed to us and bring actions in court against Lowe’s Companies, Inc. If the need be. We look forward to your prompt response. We wanted to also inform you that the said funds owed to us has caused a great strain on our company's operational capital and we want this issue to be resolved quickly. We would like to know a few things about your firm and also how you intend to handle this case. Find our concerns and questions below.
• Which of the court in the United States would be appropriate to file for law suits?
• How many matters have you handled in the past years?
• We would like to know your fee structure in details first, as we don't want any confusion in relating to payments.
• We would also like to know if you will be handling the case yourself as most attorneys hand their cases to junior attorneys.
• What kind of background or experience do you have in this specific area?
• We would like know your means/advice of alternative dispute solution on the case?
However, if you are able to help us with legal services do have your retainer agreement prepared and forwarded to us for proper review of your terms and conditions to enable us know if we can employ your services as time is of essence.
If you have any questions contact me personally anytime by email or call. You would find contact details at my signature block.
Best Regards,
Edward Scholes
Managing Director
J&A Mcdougalls ltd
32 Combie Street
Oban PA34 4HT,United Kingdom
TEL:01622 37 0798
We are a law firm in Washington, DC
DeleteOne of our partners received correspondence from "Edward Scholes . " The sending IP address was 41.138.169.61, which belongs to an ISP in Nigeria.
Received this email this weekend. We are a firm in Washington.
ReplyDeleteWe would like to thank you for your response to our inquiry for legal services.
However, We wish to inform you that we would be needing your firms legal help to assist us with a breach of contract matter and also retrieve funds owed to our company. We ordered goods from Lowe’s Companies, Inc. And was asked to make a 50% down payment for goods to be delivered to us and that we did and up till date no goods were delivered. We asked for a refund and they made a part payment and after that no other payment was made. We seek legal help from your firm to help us collect these funds owed to our company as we do not wish to go any further with the said transaction. We have made several attempts in the past to collect these funds which all ended negatively.
We are aware that a conflict search would need to be done. Please find below details of the owing company.
Here is the name of our supplier for your conflict check of interest-
Lowe’s Companies, Inc
2700 Rainier Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144,
Attached to this email you will find attached copy of contract, email correspondence and proof of payment for your perusal. We are prepared to pay a reasonable retainer fee for this service as soon as our board gets to review the terms of your engagement. So please have that sent to my attention via email if this is a case you are willing to handle.
What we require from your firm is to Provide legal advice, collect funds owed to us and bring actions in court against Lowe’s Companies, Inc. If the need be. We look forward to your prompt response. We wanted to also inform you that the said funds owed to us has caused a great strain on our company's operational capital and we want this issue to be resolved quickly. We would like to know a few things about your firm and also how you intend to handle this case. Find our concerns and questions below.
• Which of the court in the United States would be appropriate to file for law suits?
• How many matters have you handled in the past years?
• We would like to know your fee structure in details first, as we don't want any confusion in relating to payments.
• We would also like to know if you will be handling the case yourself as most attorneys hand their cases to junior attorneys.
• What kind of background or experience do you have in this specific area?
• We would like know your means/advice of alternative dispute solution on the case?
However, if you are able to help us with legal services do have your retainer agreement prepared and forwarded to us for proper review of your terms and conditions to enable us know if we can employ your services as time is of essence.
If you have any questions contact me personally anytime by email or call. You would find contact details at my signature block.
Best Regards,
Edward Scholes
Managing Director
J&A Mcdougalls ltd
32 Combie Street
Oban PA34 4HT,United Kingdom
TEL:01622 37 0798
I am an attorney in South Carolina. I received the same email as the attorney above from the Washington firm. My email is identical, except it refers to a Lowe's store located in Rock Hill, SC.
ReplyDeleteMy email has the same signature line too. It appears to come from the following:
Edward Scholes
Managing Director
J&A Mcdougalls ltd
32 Combie Street
Oban PA34 4HT,United Kingdom
TEL:01622 37 0798
I am an attorney in the metro NY area, and was contacted today and last week with the same emails from someone named Edward Scholes with a breach of contract matter. Thanks for posting this information so I did not waste time on this.
ReplyDelete(NYC Attorney) I received this today. It was sent with my firm's confidentiality notice attached:
ReplyDeleteWe have a breach of contract issue, and would be glad if you let us know if you handle such case.
Thank you.
Edward G Scholes.
I am an attorney in the Metropolitan DC area. I too just received a "breach of contract" inquiry from Mr. Scholes.
ReplyDeleteI am an attorney in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, too. This morning I received Mr. Scholes' suspicious email, as well.
ReplyDeleteedwardscholes55@hotmail.com
This is very useful information for whoever known the attorney lawyers, and this content is said useful information about property cases and breach for contract etc.....
ReplyDeleteGot this one today:
ReplyDeleteWe have a breach of contract issue, and would be glad if you let
us know if you handle such case.
Edward.G Scholes.
Just got one here in New Orleans
ReplyDeleteJust got a breach of Contract email from Scholes, I am a RI/MA attorney...
ReplyDeleteGot one in Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteThis was pretty funny, since I asked the putative Japanese publishing company for copies of all of the relevant documents for review prior to providing an estimate for engagement.
The scammers screwed up and issued me a check for $458,000 despite the fact that I had replied only with a request for more information for the purpose of consultation.
I can't believe the guy still uses the name "Ray Aubrey", as Google straightened out my bewilderment right quick.
Further to my previous comment, I'm wondering if I should go ahead and tell the "prospective client" that I have received the settlement check, but cannot proceed to send him the funds unless he sends me $5000 in cash immediately. Has anyone tried scambaiting these nitwits?
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