JinWon Sua, City Furniture Outlet, Owner Posing As Immigration Lawyer JinWon Sua Aka Chris J Sua con artist posing as lawyer rips client off $46500 for E-2 application files and requests for I-20 filing forms ripoff scam Los Angeles California

1) 8/8/03 - Went into a law office (will not mention name for privacy reasons) where the American lawyer told the person in question JinWon Sua to talk to me. At that meeting the Korean-american lawyer(he posed as being a lawyer) persuade me to go into an E-2 investor immigration visa although I had gone in to discuss about a working visa.

2) 8/9/03- Called me on my cell stating that he would help me get an E-2 investor visa. Although the investment capital should be anywhere from 100000 to 150000, he stated that he would make it look on p[aper as if I had loaned him $180000 and that I needed to just show proof that I had at least $50000 in my American bank. Told me to have $50000 ready in the bank and ask the bank to make a statement stating how much I had.

2)8/18/03- Stated that $5000 was needed to extend my I-20 student visa gave him a check that he did not want me to fill in the" payable to" line Wanted cash but I gave him a check

3) 8/19/03- Meeting where he wanted me to give him evidence that I had $10000 in a Korean account under my name and $50000 in the American bank. At the last minute, he told me that I needed to show to the INS that I was investing actual physical money and gave me 30 minutes to go to the bank and get $40000. I told him I only could come up with $35000 and he said he would use the $5000 to add it so that it would look as if it was $40000. When I came back stating that the bank needed more time to make a certified c heck made out to JinWon Sua, he followed me to the bank, bullied the teller stating that he was my lawyer and that if we did not file the paperfomr on that day, I would not be eligible for an E-2 visa and that I would be left illegal. Gave him $35000. In exchange, he gave me a propmissory note with a check paid to me of $40000. It was dated 9/15/03 stating that in two weeks' time the INS would be able to give me the visa and he would just give me back the money invested. I was to pay him separate E-2 application fees of $7500 thereafter.

4)9/8/03- called me urgently stating that $6500 was to be put onto an account of Patty Kang because he had paid for my E-2 expediting fee of $1500, translation cost of $300 and I-20 processing fees of $4700.

5)10/13/03- After numerous requests as to the evidence of E-2 application files and requests for I-20 filing forms, the con artist Jin Won Sua finally admitted that he had never filed anything on my behalf and that he had in fact used $46500 for his personal use.

6)before getting to know that he was not a lawyer, I checked with the California bar association and they told me he was not licensed here. In previous conversations, he had stated that he was licensed in the state of Washington so I contacted them and they also said no one by the name of Jinwon Sua is licensed with them.

I finally got to talk on the 12th of November with the previous American lawyer that I had originally gone in to see. He was not working there anymore and had moved out. It turns out that the american lawyer had hired JinWon Sua as his office manager but realized that he had been taking in clients pretending to be a lawyer on the side and that he already had a case exactly like mine and was suing the guy on fraud charges.

I realized today, the 12th of November that my attempt at contacting bar associations was meaningless because my belief now is that he is a con artist pretending to be a lawyer.

He has returned $9900 of the $46500 he owes me and after several attempts at telling him that he should tell me what he is going to do, he said he would repay the rest by the end of next week.


It is my belief that this con artist posing as a lawyer knows a lot about immigration law and that he will keep on using other law offices and keep on posing as a lawyer victimizing anyone he meets.

He seems to only choose people that he thinks will pay him well such as was my case since when I said there were other people I could introduce him to when he was trying to persuade me to buy a dental office with him, that he was not interested in older people.

He is a very dangerous person. Lying is second nature and preys on the fear and worries of people who have immigration needs.

He states he graduated law school in the state of washington, that he was licensed in the state of washington, that he lives with his mom, that his dad owns a big magazine company called "Donga" but that his parents are divorced. He stated that because immigration lawy is federal, he is allowed to practice anywhere.

Hanna
Corona del Mar, California
U.S.A.

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