A woman shopper got the shock of her life when she found a note from a prisoner of China pleading for help for what he called slavery in prison factories.

The note read: HELP! HELP! HELP which continued on to say that the prisoner is one of many prisoners who are exploited to work in the prison factories, mainly working and producing shopping bags in bulk that are used in shopping malls abroad.

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Reports said Stephanie Wilson, 28, who lives in Manhattan, was the shopper who got the message after she bought a pair of boots at the Saks Fifth Avenue.  

The note ended with the words: "Thanks and sorry to bother you."

Reports said Wilson forwarded the message to a Washington non-profit organization that takes in cases of forced labor within the Chinese prisons, and that the letter was soon sent to Homeland Security for investigation.

The note was signed Tohnain Emmanuel Njong, and was accompanied by a photo of him dressed in orange prisoner garb. Reports said Njong was teaching English at Chenzhen, and was arrested for fraud in May 2011. .

He said he denied the charges but was convicted later on and was sent to prison.  Njong said they worked 13 hours straight every day inside the prison in Quindong , manufacturing and producing shopping bags and later on electrical supplies.

Njong said they were being closely monitored by the prison guards.

He also stated the guard gave the prisoners pens to list down their production output. However, with the pen and paper, Njong was able to write five letters under the blankets so the guards wouldn't see.

Reports said he was freed after 3 years and was sent back home to his family in Cameroon. He extended his thanks to all those people who got his messages even if they didn't work out.

"Maybe this bag could go somewhere and they find this letter and they can let my family know or anybody [know] that I am in prison." he said.

Njong said that he was happy in knowing that his letters reached somebody and that they heard his cry for help.