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August 26, 2008
Scam on Attorneys Claims U.S. Victim
The scam I wrote about here has found success with at least three attorneys, one of whom may now be in the hole for $200,000:
Atlanta securities lawyer Gregory Bartko said he is the victim of an Internet fraud scheme that is apparently targeting law firms throughout the country and the banks where lawyers have their escrow accounts.
Read about it here. This article should be standard reading for any attorney doing business internationally.
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Someone tried to do this to us about a year ago. They sent us a check for around $390,000 by mail, from a company in Japan and said it was per our previous discussions and should go into our trust account. The check looked mighty real and because we do a fair amount of business with Japan (mostly through our lawyers in China), we actually thought it was real.
Now the thing is, when you get money for trust, you are supposed to put it into trust. So we went to the bank (in our building) and told them what was up and they said they would look into it. That night we heard from our people in China and nobody there knew anything about it either. A few days later, the bank told us the check was a fake.
Here's the scary thing. If the check had been for between, let's say, $3,000 and $35,000, we probably would not have thought twice about it.
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at August 26, 2008 7:01 PM
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