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April 17th, 2020 | ‘Everybody and His Dog Is Trying to Sell Medical Equipment’

Dan Harris in Wired

Dan Harris, a lawyer in Seattle who advises on business deals in China, said that he recently got a call from one company that ordered a shipment of protective masks. Instead they got Halloween masks. (He didn’t know what type.) “You’re wondering, why do they bother sending Halloween masks rather than nothing at all?” Harris said. The answer, he said, is that it buys them time. When an order ships, a buyer gets proof of shipment, and in the weeks that the Halloween masks are on the water the factory can scam other buyers.

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April 17th, 2020 | South China Morning Post

Dan Harris in South China Morning Post

On a single day in March, the founder of law firm Harris Sliwoski, Dan Harris, spoke to three separate people who had each lost north of US$1 million on mask export deals.

In one case, an American businessman had taken out a million-dollar loan to advance to a long-term Chinese textiles supplier, who wanted to make masks, but needed the capital to do so. The supplier disappeared with the money, leaving the businessman “all but catatonic with depression”, Harris said.

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April 17th, 2020 | Coronavirus: inside China’s ‘Wild West’, where ‘mask machines are like cash printers’

Fred Rocafort in South China Morning Post

“It looked sketchy – it didn’t look right,” said Fred Rocafort, another Harris Sliwoski lawyer. “I did a Google image search, and it turns out to be a fake certificate already used in a fraud in New Jersey. Some fraudsters are not even trying, it’s like phishing attempts where they just send the email but don’t even change the name.”

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