"A“Nigerian” Scam Snatches Over
$31,000,000.00 Out of Lawyers
In
August 2011, it became public that the country of Nigeria had
extradited to the United States a
man who was then indicted for allegedly scamming more than $31 million out of
more than 80 law firms in the U.S. and
Canada
The
scam appears to have worked as follows: One of several scammers would contact
(usually by way of the Internet) a lawyer or law firm allegedly for legal
assistance in collecting a debt. He becomes the client. Another scammer acting
as the debtor would send a fake check to the law firm or lawyer, who would
deposit the check into its escrow account and take out the firm’s fee before
sending the balance to the alleged client. On the occasion when this “Nigerian”
scam was carried out successfully, the alleged client got the money before the
fake check was discovered.
It
is hard to believe this scam would work on lawyers, but apparently it did. The
indictment of this individual alleges that this “Nigerian” fraud group
collected more than $31 million in this scam and tried without success to
defraud an additional $100 million out of another 300 or more lawyers."
[page 120, Chapter Eleven, "The Nigerian, The Singapore, The Irish Lottery, and Other Internet Scams"].Legal Consumer Tips and Secrets: Avoiding Debtors' Prison in the United States [Hardcover]
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About the Author
Attorney Charles Jerome Ware is a principal
in the national law firm of Charles Jerome Ware, Attorneys and Counselors. He
has served as the special legal counsel to the chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission, as a federal administrative law judge, and as a senior trial
attorney in both the Antitrust Division and the Criminal Division of the US
Justice Department. He lives with his family in Columbia, Maryland. --This
text refers to the Paperback
edition.
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