Much has been written about e-mail scams preying upon attorneys; frankly, attorneys are quite capable of protecting themselves by virtue of their professional skills. We are, after all, analysts of prose, distinguishers of detail.
Alas, few of us consider ourselves technologically capable, but this is a distraction and an excuse. Attorneys who routinely scrutinize documents somehow find themselves at the mercy of online crooks who often do a shamefully bad job of covering their tracks. I believe that attorneys can and should be immediately proactive and decisive with 99.9 percent of all scam e-mails they receive. Do your analysis and then, in most cases — should I say all? — press “delete.”
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