Furukawa Group Reports & Reviews (1)
Furukawa Group Contacts
If you know any contact information for Furukawa Group, help other victims by adding it!
Add new contacts
SCAMPULSE
|
SCAMPULSE
If you know any contact information for Furukawa Group, help other victims by adding it!
Type of a scam Employment
Thu 4/16/2020 6:28 PM email received: Are you interested in working from home as a company representative agent with awesome incentives? If yes respond back for more...
Thu 4/16/2020 My response: Hi Info,
I am interested on finding out more info about your offer to work at home.
Please send more details regarding this offer.
"This is an offer of employment as a company representative from the comfort of your home with amazing benefits. Kindly contact us for more info."
email received from scammers: Fri 4/17/2020 5:14 AM Thank you for your interest. In learning more about our company and the representative contract proposal. Let me formally introduce myself to you. I am Chang Jin. The HRM & Secretary to Furukawa Company Limited based in Hong Kong. For contact:- https://furukawamachines.com/contact.html
Furukawa Group is need of individuals and corporate bodies to act as intermediaries between us and our customers in the North American region. It is a part-time job that takes less than an hour of your time. There are transaction commissions as well as monthly stipends entitlement. It is a position that you can handle right from your home or office without you involving a penny from your personal income. ''No one will at any point in time ask you for a penny''
We are mainly engaged in foreign investment, manufacturing, sales, warehousing, and import & export. The Group mainly produces Industrial Machinery, Rock Drill Machinery, UNIC Machinery, Electronic Materials, Chemicals, which are widely applied in petroleum, chemical engineering, machinery, electric power, automobile, shipbuilding, aerospace, food, pharmacy, decoration, and other fields.
With the high demand for our products in North America, we look forward to establishing representative offices and sales centers in both Canada and the United States of America. We are contracting reliable companies or individuals (irrespective of the business type) that will stand as an intermediary between our customers in North America and our Company pending when the sales centers of our company are established. Hence, we wish to contact you as our representative in Canada and the United States of America.
Your onus is to assist our Company to communicate, establish a good relationship with the customer you would be assigned to and also retrieve overdue invoice (Payment) from the company (assigned customer to Agent) in the North America region. Communications are usually done via phone and emails as to help maintain or not to interrupt your usual work or business and also to keep you safe from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Due to the COVID 19 crisis, we have customers in different regions of North America that have not met with the normal payment net of 60 days after receipt of products delivered in good condition. Based on our research and past experiences, we have discovered that having an agent in the various regions in North America will help to facilitate business transactions promptly. As such, we require an agent on a contract basis who can communicate with the assigned company (customer) via email and telephone means.
We have two categories of partnership available for our representatives, namely;
1. Individual Partnership: This is for reliable Persons/Individuals.
2. Corporate Partnership: This is for company owners who wish to register their company with us to represent our interests.
This representative partnership is independent of career or business type and does not require much time nor traveling.
COMPENSATIONS:
Individual Partnership: As compensation for this service, you will be entitled to 5% commission of every completed transaction (i.e. 5% of every payment received and processed on behalf of this company), plus $3,500 monthly allowance to you.
Corporate Partnership: As compensation for this service, your company will be entitled to 7% commission of every completed transaction (i.e. 7% of every payment received and processed), plus $5,000.
Note: That the monthly allowance will be paid at the end of each month starting from the month of your date of appointment while the commission are usually deducted from any completed transaction assigned to you on behalf of this company.
Reply back to us with your preferable category of partnership as to enable us send you the company's contract registration form for you to fill and send back to us.
We await your response.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]: www.furukawamachines.com
Fri 4/17/2020 1:19 PM My response email: Hello Chang Jin,
I am very interested in your offer here is the option I am selecting, my company is a DBA is this an issue in order to select the corporate partnership?
2. Corporate Partnership: This is for company owners who wish to register their company with us to represent our interests.
I am looking forward to receiving the company's contract registration form for you to fill and send back to you.
I did visit your website, I reviewed your annual report for 2019 and I am wondering if there is any technical training required to fulfill this position properly?
Especially when it comes to selling Mining technologies: Bock drill Equipment, UNIC machinery, industrial machinery. Or Smelting technologies.
I look forward to becoming a JV partner/agent for you here in North America.
If you also have clients in Mexico, Central, or South America, I can work remotely with theses countries due to my bilingual and bi-cultural capacities. I will further explain if there is an interest here as well.
(Furukawa Group is need of individuals and corporate bodies to act as intermediaries between us and our customers in the North American region. It is a part-time job that takes less than an hour of your time. There are transaction commissions as well as monthly stipends entitlement. It is a position that you can handle right from your home or office without you involving a penny from your personal income. ''No one will at any point in time ask you for a penny'')
I look forward to your reply!
Their reply Sat 4/18/2020 10:22 AM Please find attached, the contract registration form as enclosed to this message. Do complete the requested info that best suit your category of partnership in the form and enclose it back to us for review and processing of the Memorandum of Understanding (Contract Agreement).
Upon receipt and verification of the above information, a contract agreement will be forwarded to you for your review and signatory. Please acknowledge receipt of this email and return this form soonest. Note: The requested info on the registration form can also be manually written out to us here.
Important notice: As requested in your email, be informed that this position does not require any formal training as it entails just communications within you and any assigned customer until payment is remitted to you. It doesn't involve sales.
We await your response.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
My Response Mon 4/20/2020 12:48 PM
Hello Chang Jin,
With all due respect can you explain this discrepancy to me, please.
You state you are the HR & Secretary of the Furukawa Group in Hong Kong right?
So who are this gentlemen below?
Why is his name different from yours?
Search Results
Web results
Yeung Jin - HR & Secretary - Furukawa Co., Ltd | LinkedIn
hk.linkedin.com › yeung-jin-30569643
Hong Kong - ?Furukawa Co., Ltd
HR & Secretary. Furukawa Co., Ltd. May 2002 – Present 17 years 11 months. Hong Kong SAR. HR & Secretary at Furukawa Co., Ltd ...
I look forward to your reply!
Their response: Tue 4/21/2020 6:37 AM Sonia,
Yeung Jin, works with the HR department of this company as I am the Human Resources Manager with Furukawa Company. Ironically, we both have same Surname.
Should you have any further question, kindly let us know.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
Wed 4/22/2020 11:37 AM My Response:Hello Chang Jin,
Thank you for the clarification regarding the info on Yeung Jin and your position as Human Resources Manager "Yeung Jin, works with the HR department of this company as I am the Human Resources Manager with Furukawa Company. Ironically, we both have same Surname."
Please find the completed registration form attached to this email.
Looking forward to your reply!
Their reply Thu 4/23/2020 5:11 AM: The management has reviewed your information and has approved your registration form, that you will be our account receivable agent in North America. Attached is the contract agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) which defines our working relationship for your review and signature.
Be informed that upon receipt of the signed contract agreement, we will notify our customers in the region of this development (i.e. an AR agent is available in their region for payment collection). Thus, all payments due to Furukawa Group will be made payable to you for onward remittance to us prior to our instructions.
Please do acknowledge receipt of this email and return a signed copy of the contract agreement to proceed immediately. We will refer you to the accounting department upon confirmation of the signed copy.
I await your response.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
Thu 4/23/2020 10:41 AM my Reply: Hello Chang Jin,
I acknowledged I received your MOU read its entire content I have endorsed this document but have some questions.
I have several questions before commencing:
Why are these funds being collected by us your agents going through our companies bank account instead of the funds being deposited into Furukawa's bank account here in North America directly?
You have offices operating here in North America I am aware of I am sure you have bank accounts open to conduct your business here.
So why have these collection sums go through the agent's bank account instead of receiving these payments in the name of Furukawa Group and being deposited in your company bank account here in North America?
And after that, having your company pay our 7% commission for successful collections of these debts on your behalf?
What is the average sum being collected from these customers?
If these amount exceeds $100,000.00 US, it will take days to clear my bank account, and after that, who is going to pay for the cost of a wire transfer to your companies bank account? My bank will Red Flag my account for having suspicious transactions going through.
What if a customer wants to pay their debt with a credit card?
I am sure your company has merchant accounts to receive payments for equipment etc., how do I, as an agent gain access to your merchant accounts to transact these credit card payments?
My other concern is when one of your customers writes a check, how will I know this check is not fraudulent before I deposit it into my bank account?
I am still remitting this document to you singed and appreciate you answering all my questions in this email communication.
Thu 4/23/2020 4:14 PM Their reply: Response to your questions are written in uppercase format.
Why are these funds being collected by us your agents going through our companies bank account instead of the funds being deposited into Furukawa's bank account here in North America directly? You have offices operating here in North America I am aware of I am sure you have bank accounts open to conduct your business here.
*** FURUKAWA AS A COMPANY WAS FOUNDED 1875, WE IMPLEMENTED STEPS AS THE FURUKAWA COMPANY GROUP IN MACH 2005, WHICH BIRTHED FURUKAWA CO., LTD, HERE IN HONG KONG. EACH MEMBER COMPANY OF FURUKAWA TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT'S OWN ASSET MANAGEMENT AND PROFIT/LOSS AS AN INDEPENDENT ENTITY. FURUKAWA AS A MEMBER OF FURUKAWA GROUP DOES NOT HAVE ANY OFFICE OR OUTLET YET IN THE NORTH AMERICAN REGION AND SO DOING, WE DECIDED TO IMPLORE THE SERVICES OF AN INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVES THAT CAN BE HANDLING COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF THIS COMPANY.
*** AS STATED ABOVE, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY BANK ACCOUNT IN NORTH AMERICAN REGION YET AND WE HAVE PLANS OF SETTING-UP A CORPORATE ACCOUNT IN THE USA/CANADA WHICH WE WILL MAKE YOU AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE THE SIGNATORY TO SUCH IN THE USA BUT BASICALLY AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CRISIS.
And after that, having your company pay our 7% commission for successful collections of these debts on your behalf?What is the average sum being collected from these customers?
*** ACCORDING TO RECORD FROM OUR ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT, THEY NOTIFIED MY OFFICE THAT THERE IS AN AVAILABLE CUSTOMER SET-OUT FOR YOU ALREADY FOR COLLECTION AND WE WERE TOLD THAT THE CUSTOMER HAS AN OUTSTANDING INVOICE OF $300 PLUS USD BUT THE INVOICE IS MEANT TO BE REMITTED IN INSTALLMENT OF 1-6, AS THEY INFORMED US.
If these amount exceeds $100,000.00 US, it will take days to clear my bank account, and after that, who is going to pay for the cost of a wire transfer to your companies bank account? My bank will Red Flag my account for having suspicious transactions going through.
*** WIRE CHARGES ARE REMITTED BY THIS COMPANY AND ALSO MIND YOU PLEASE, THIS COMPANY FROM INCEPTION OF ITS EXISTENCE TILL DATE HAS NEVER RECORD ANY OUT OF ILLEGALITY AND WHAT EVER YOU ARE HANDLING FOR THIS COMPANY IS 100% SECURE.
What if a customer wants to pay their debt with a credit card?
I am sure your company has merchant accounts to receive payments for equipment etc., how do I, as an agent gain access to your merchant accounts to transact these credit card payments?
*** ANY CUSTOMER THAT THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT OF THIS COMPANY REFERS YOU TO MEANS, THE PAYMENT IS TO BE PROCESSED THROUGH YOU TO US.
My other concern is when one of your customers writes a check, how will I know this check is not fraudulent before I deposit it into my bank account?
*** LIKE I SAID, FURUKAWA COMPANY HAS NEVER INDULGED IN ANY ACT OF ILLEGALITY AND BY SO DOING, WE DEAL LEGITIMATELY WITH OUR ESTEEMED CUSTOMERS.
UPON YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS COMPANY, WE WILL BE SENDING YOU THE APPOINTMENT LETTER WHICH WILL BE SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COMPANY.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
Sat 4/25/2020 8:55 PM Re: Re[2]: Sign & Return MOU
Please confirm if you received the answers to your questions and the last message sent you.
chang
My Reply Sun 4/26/2020 5:44 PM: Hello Chang Jin,
I acknowledged I received your responses to all my questions and I am stratified with your answers and ready to move forward.
Please send the appointment letter.
Their Reply Mon 4/27/2020 1:21 AM:On behalf of the management of Furukawa Group of Company, we congratulate you on your new appointment. We received the signed MOU which was review by the company Board of Director thereby approving an appointment letter to you and confirming you to be a representative to Furukawa Group of Company within the USA and Canadian region.
In moving further to introducing you to one of our new customers for collection of overdue payment, we would want you to kindly email our accounting department for the contact details of the client who is ready to start remitting payment through you as our representative manager. Your first monthly allowance fee will be paid to you at the end of 30 days effect from today which bears the date on the appointment letter.
Kindly email the details below and inquire for the customer's info and the transaction invoice from our accounting department.
Email: [email protected]
Name: Changpu Wong
Position: Chief Accountant.
NOTE: You are required to always copy me in an email that you will be sending to our accounting department and to our customer from now henceforth for our office record purpose.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail.
I await your response.
Regards.
Chang Jin
HR & Secretary
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
My response Mon 4/27/2020 2:36 PM: Hello Changpu Wong,
As per instructions in the attached email please provide contact details of one of your clients who is ready to start remitting payment through you as our representative manager.
I have attached the email from Mr. Chang Jin I received yesterday for your perusal.
e[2]: Letter of Appointment. More questions?
Hello Chang Jin,
I acknowledge the receipt of this email.
In reading all the material and information you have sent me thus far.
You and your company have neglected to specified where to remit your payments to once they have been collected from your customers?
You have not provided me with wire instructions to send these collected funds when will I receive these wire transfer instructions?
I will deduct the cost of wire transferring your funds form the total received minus my 7% as well right?
How are you going to pay me at the end of every month?
How will receive my monthly compensation of $5000.00 US from your company on the 27th of every month?
Can you please provide your office phone number contact information in case I need to get a hold of you with questions right away regarding these collections or any other issues I encounter?
Thanks, I look forward to your reply!
Their reply Tue 4/28/2020 2:16 AM Welcome and congratulations on your new appointment with Furukawa Group. As our representative in North America, We have forwarded your information to the customer to formally inform them of your place with Furukawa Group.
You are to contact Mr. Williams with this invoice # (09827044) attached to this email requesting for payment accordingly as it shows the breakdown of the supplied products, initial deposited amount and the balance amount of the overdue invoice which will be paid in 1-6 installments from them as agreed between TagPoint Trading Company and Furukawa Group.
Kindly inform him you are acting on behalf of Furukawa Group. Once you are in contact with them, Kindly keep us posted on your correspondence with them for our office record purposes.
Below are the details of the client.
Contact Person: Williams A. Peterson
TagPoint Trading Company LLC
Tel: +1-289-204-8119
Email: [email protected]
Acknowledge receipt of this email.
Response to your questions are answered via uppercase letter.
You and your company have neglected to specified where to remit your payments to once they have been collected from your customers?
*** YES, WHEN CHECK IS RECEIVED, DEPOSITED AND CLEARED, OUR ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO REMIT THE BALANCE CHARGES AFTER DEDUCTING YOUR 7% COMMISSION AS AGREED AND DOCUMENTED IN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AND APPOINTMENT LETTER.
You have not provided me with wire instructions to send these collected funds when will I receive these wire transfer instructions?
*** THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT WILL PROVIDE THIS TO YOU SOON AS FUNDS ARE CLEARED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I will deduct the cost of wire transferring your funds form the total received minus my 7% as well right?
*** YES.
How are you going to pay me at the end of every month?
*** YOUR MONTHLY ALLOWANCE IS USUALLY PAID 30 DAYS FROM THE DAY YOU RECEIVED AN APPOINTMENT LETTER FROM US WHILE THE 7% COMMISSION IS DEDUCTED ON ANY COMPLETED TASK.
How will receive my monthly compensation of $5000.00 US from your company on the 27th of every month?
*** CERTAINLY YES ***
Can you please provide your office phone number contact information in case I need to get a hold of you with questions right away regarding these collections or any other issues I encounter?
*** +(852)-8192-9334
Also, I will always respond promptly to your messages via email should you have any quick question.
Please do always keep this office posted as I are here to always respond to you on time not considering the time difference Hong Kong and USA.
myself and some persons from Furukawa Group has been assigned to be available in the USA after this pandemic for a period of 1 month to set-up our new outlet over there and we look forward to meeting you when we arrive.
Sincerely.
Changpu Wong
Chief Accountant,
Furukawa Group
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.furukawamachines.com
MY Response Re[2]: First Assignment (Invoice) Tue 4/28/2020 1:49 PM: Hello Changpu Wong,
I attempted to Contact Person: Williams A. Peterson
TagPoint Trading Company LLC
This phone NO ANSWER left message to contact me back 1-249-200-6665
This phone is disconnected not in service Tel: +1-289-204-8119
Regarding your outstanding balance with Furukawa Group to this fake client.
Dear Mr. Williams A. Peterson,
I will introduce myself, I Sonia am the authorized accounts receivable representative for Furukawa Machine Group in the united States and Canada.
I am contacting you today since there is an outstanding balance of $369,018.70 on your account.
Please review this invoice attached to this email.
I would appreciate an email from you to let me know how we can make payment arrangements for your company to resolve this outstanding balance for the equipment you received on 02-24-2020 and partially paid for this equipment.
I look forward to your reply!
Tue 4/28/2020 2:55 PM fake client's response to me: We are currently working with one of our investors and we will have some sort of payment to you as a sign of good faith within this week. We will keep you posted if anything changes. Please kindly indicate below;
1. COMPANY NAME AS YOU WANT IT TO BE WRITTEN ON THE CHECK:
2. NAME OF BANKING INSTITUTION:
3. MAILING ADDRESS:
4. MOBILE NUMBER AND BEST TIME TO REACH YOU:
Do help us extend greetings to the company you represent and notify them of our intention to commence payment this week.
Regards,
Williams A. Peterson
Vice President
TagPoint Trading Company LLC
Wed 4/29/2020 11:48 AM MY forwarding this info to te fake scamster company Re [2]: Regarding your outstanding balance with Furukawa Group. Hello Changpu Wong,
I am in contact received this email this morning as well as a few phone calls back from Mr. Williams A. Peterson.
I am in the process of responding back today by answering his questions!
I look forward to your reply!
Fri 5/1/2020 9:40 AM response from fake customer : ============ Forwarded message ============
From: TagPoint Trading Company
To:
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:18:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Regarding your outstanding balance with Furukawa Group.
============ Forwarded message ============
There is an agreed terms of payment already between the company you represent (Furukawa Group) and TagPoint Trading Company. All payments are in check and are expected to be fully paid on or before 17th June, 2020 in one to six installment method without any specified installment amount, but we intend to pay-up before the above date.
Williams A. Peterson
Vice President
TagPoint Trading Company LLC
Tue 5/5/2020 4:25 AM Here comes the bad check, altered check a fraudulent check from this fake customer.
Communications from Furukawa Group regarding me receiving a fraudulent check.
Prior to the phone call I put through to Williams today, they notified us that an amount of $88,360.00 was mailed to you via www.ups.com with tracking number 1Z0240X41512038723 and to be balancing $280,658.70. Do deposit check immediately it is received and send us the scan copy of bank deposit receipt and funds availability date for our office record purpose.
Prior to our visit to the USA, it was supposed to be scheduled for 20th June, 2020 and we do hope the pandemic ease down by then. Myself, Chang and some other team members delegated shall be present. One of our primary aim of visiting is to set up an outlet that will serve as a networking body for our company in the USA/Canadian region and a lot more. Meeting you will be a great delight upon our arrival.
We applaud your effort. We have all noticed the enthusiasm you put in relating to designated client before recording this success. We hope you will be inspiring us with your innovative way of handling this position always with subsequent assignments coming your ways.
IMPORTANT: Do acknowledge this message with a response back to confirm you received this message
Sincerely.
Changpu Wong
Chief Accountant,
Furukawa Group
Mon 5/11/2020 8:59 AM My final email to Furukawa Group calling them out on their scam (All I lost was my time and $5.00 for the bad check.
Bad Check from TagPoint Trading Company or whoever got returned back to Wells Fargo bank as a FRAUDULENT CHECK???
Dear Mr. Changpu Wong and Mr.Chang Jin,
As you can see by the image AND PDF I attached to this email communication, this check I received from TagPoint Trading Company LLC., is a bad check it is an altered check is a fraudulent check.
Please explain?
This is the statement from Chang Jin, HR & Secretary of Furukawa Group I received on Thu 4/23/2020 4:14 PM
*** WIRE CHARGES ARE REMITTED BY THIS COMPANY AND ALSO MIND YOU PLEASE, THIS COMPANY FROM INCEPTION OF ITS EXISTENCE TILL DATE HAS NEVER RECORD ANY OUT OF ILLEGALITY AND WHATEVER YOU ARE HANDLING FOR THIS COMPANY IS 100% SECURE.
This was in response to my concern and question on 4/23/2020: My other concern is when one of your customers writes a check, how will I know this check is not fraudulent before I deposit it into my bank account?
If this amount exceeds $100,000.00 US, it will take days to clear my bank account, and after that, who is going to pay for the cost of a wire transfer to your companies bank account? My bank will Red Flag my account for having suspicious transactions going through.
*** WIRE CHARGES ARE REMITTED BY THIS COMPANY AND ALSO MIND YOU PLEASE, THIS COMPANY FROM INCEPTION OF ITS EXISTENCE TILL DATE HAS NEVER RECORD ANY OUT OF ILLEGALITYAND WHAT EVER YOU ARE HANDLING FOR THIS COMPANY IS 100% SECURE.
Tue 5/12/2020 9:58 AM Here is their [censored]ic response I got from Furukawa Group after this email I received they have not communicated because they know I am on to their scam and they did not get a dime from me:
This is very strange. We have written to them and awaits response.
We will keep you posted.
Wong
11:25:15 AM Here's my final email to them:
Dear Mr. Changpu Wong and Mr.Chang Jin,
I would like to get an update from your last email dated on 5-12-2020 what did you find out from your buyer why did he send this altered check?
Keep in mind your company Furukawa Group will owe me on the 27 of this month of May I am to receive $5000.00 in US dollars. Or is this appointment and monthly payment also not real?
I did a successful close of a business collection I received the altered check or fraudulent check from TagPoint Trading Company your buyer. Not my problem or fault that this company decided to send a fraudulent check. I am also owed a $5.00 fee for receiving a fraudulent check in my bank account.
I am awaiting your reply!