Listen up lawyers — and everyone else! In light of my last article, , the list of tips below should help everyone to avoid advance fee frauds. These tips are meant for lawyers, but apply to all potential victims.
Have a read and don’t get scammed.
Firstly, red flags:
You are asked to wire money out of your account:
Working on the theory that the 419 advance fee fraud plays on people’s greed, who would be the best target? Lawyers, of course.
You’d think that lawyers are too smart to fall for these scams, but apparently, it is quite common. This happens to lawyers frequently enough that a bar association posted a warning regarding such scams.
So, it turns out, some scammers started thinking big.… Continue reading
Betsy Shyrock met Mark Donovan online – love at first type. She was a single mom who hadn’t been in the dating game for 17 years. He was an international soccer scout from Ireland who lived in Virginia.
For two months, Shyrock chatted with Donovan from her Georgia home, trading love notes and discussing his plans to come see her. But trouble came instead.
“He said… Continue reading
During tough economic times, more people look for loans, but banks will also turn down more applications. Out of desperation, loan seekers turn to the internet. As with any other scam, internet makes it easy for scammers to operate under anonymity. A quick run-down of the scam goes like this:
You search for lenders online.
Apply to one of the lenders you find who advertises quick… Continue reading
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