I would have thought by now that every lawyer in the United States, if not every lawyer in the world, would be aware of the e-mail scams directed at the bar. But I recently read that some continue to fall for the legal version of the Nigerian Prince scam. Maybe we should send a notice about this with the annual bar registration or with the quarterly URL reporting notices, because this all would be really funny if so many lawyers were not getting badly burned.
Here is how the scam works. Joe the Lawyer will get an e-mail. The sender will claim to be either a spouse with a large delinquent unpaid support award or a manager of a business with a large account receivable. Sometimes, these are from overseas. Other times, the potential client is local. In all the cases, the lawyer is asked to represent the client in collection of the debt.
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