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Law.com: Lawyers Warned to Be Wary of Client E-Mail Scams

‘“I’m a capital ‘D’ Dumbass,” says Howell, who has practiced law for 23 years…. In October 2008, Howell became the victim of a sophisticated, international version of a classic check-fraud scam….

…Howell’s firm sued Citibank in state court in Houston, alleging the New York bank was negligent and engaged in negligent misrepresentation when it represented to Howell that a $367,000 check — that was supposed to be a payment to Howell’s client from a customer — had cleared when, in fact, it was a bogus check.’

(via consumerist, who adds that banks should be ‘…doing things like warning customers not to access “available” funds unless they really trust the writer of the check, and speeding up their verification process to identify fraudulent checks faster.’)

26 January 2009
9:16

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