Complaint Review: Japan Process Development Co. LTD

These scammers set up fake profiles on LinkedIn and if your connected with them they will send you a message about a business opportunity that might interest you either by your qualifications they saw on your profile or by your interest in making extra money. They send you a link or email to contact the company with the job offer. Once contact is made, you fill out a form with brief information about yourself send it back and they inform you that you have the job. They send you a file with the what they want you to do. In this case the job was to be a U.S. based representative for the company to collect payments that are owed to the company by U.S. citizens. They offered to pay $3,000.00 per month plus 10% commission on the amounts you collect. Once you accept the job they sent you a copy of a billing statement owed by a customer along with a template on what to say to the customer when contact was made after you emailed a copy of the invoice to the customer.

Here's the Catch-- The firstcustomer they assigned to me was Gary Thompson of 164 Briarwood Ln, Romance, Arkansas 72136. I googled the address and it was in a pasture in southern Arkansas. This was the first indication of the scam. I sent the copy of the invoice along with the email template to the customer and waited for his response. He contacted me and wanted to arrange payments by mobile deposit and wanted my bank information to give to his bank for the cash transfer to my personal bank account. I then contacted Toshiro Tada of JPD and asked why they customer would want to make his check out to me instead of JPD.,Ltd. Mr. Tada told me that they could recieve the funds faster if it was sent to my bank account so I could then forward the money less my first months salary ( thats another catch) to JPD. JPD told me that this transfer would clear my bank in 2-3 days. With this in mind I contacted Gary Thompson and informed him that I would only accept a Certified Cashiers Check which would be deposited and once the check cleared the bank we would set up a new account which we could provide the account details for a future "mobile deposit".

In a nutshell they wanted access to my bank account information to gain access for a fake check to be deposited. Then they wanted me to do a cashiers check on my personal account to forward to JPD for the remaining balance. This scam would leave me owing my bank for the overdraft once the Fake Cashiers Check Bounced.

Later I was sent an email from Thomas Kruger from Kruger Investment Group LTD who says he's Gary Thompsons banker. Gary Thompson already told me he banked with BOA. (another catch) Thomas Kruger again tried to get me to give him my bank information.

He's still waiting ;)