Most of us attorneys, from time to time, receive e-mails asking us to receive and clear checks for amounts owed to these e-mailers by American companies, with a substantial percentage supposedly going to the lawyers. The objective of the sender is to have a cohort send a check to the attorney that he or she deposits into his or her law firm trust account, and then have the lawyer write a check to the e-mailer for most of those funds before the check bounces. Most lawyers, including myself, ignore those e-mails.
Recently I and hundreds of other lawyers across the country were targets of a much more sophisticated scam. I received an e-mail purporting to be from a lawyer in Minnesota asking if I would be willing to represent a large Chinese manufacturer who “was a very good client of his” to try to recover a very large debt from a large, well-known Atlanta company. I e-mailed back that our firm would be happy to discuss the matter with his client.
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