How to Prevent Becoming the Victim of a Scam Targeting Attorneys
Introduction All that glitters is not gold. Just ask my client. When my client, a Waltham attorney, reported to her local police that she had been victimized by a scam, the police undertook an investigation. They combed through FBI records to see if the suspected perpetrators had pulled off a similar heist on other attorneys. The police discovered twenty other reported instances of the same perpetrators scamming other attorneys with a similar scheme. The average payday for the perpetrators was $100,000. One attorney lost over $500,000 in the scam. And this is only what was reported to the FBI. …