At first glance, Wesley & McCain looked like an established Pittsburgh law firm, filled with eager professionals. That’s what its website showed at least, complete with a group photo.
But while the attorneys were real, Wesley & McCain was a fiction. The photo actually showed lawyers from Brydon, Swearengen & England in Missouri, whose images had been used to create a website for the fake firm. The counterfeiter had used a real Pittsburgh firm’s street address too—that of Robb Leonard Mulvihill, according to a CNBC news report.
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