{"id":650,"date":"2023-05-26T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:17:57","slug":"email-scams-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Email scams (continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=528\" target=\"_self\">written a blog piece<\/a>\u00a0warning of increased email scam activity and sophistication.\u00a0Expect more.\u00a0Another victim of these email scams has come to light, and this victim was a lawyer.\u00a0An article in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Virginia Lawyer&#8217;s Weekly<\/a><\/em> told the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/lawyer-falls-prey-to-chinese-\u2018check-scam\u2019\/\" target=\"_self\">a lawyer victim of a successful email scam<\/a>.\u00a0This blog post provides another warning against these scams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-117 alignright\" title=\"Email\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Computer-Keyboard1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Email\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this story as told in <em>Virginia Lawyer&#8217;s Weekly<\/em>, the attorney, Carl Witmeyer from Ashland, Virginia was contacted by a person asking for help to collect a $840,700 debt. After Mr. Witmeyer received a signed retainer agreement and deposit, the supposed debtor sent &#8220;what appeared to be an official check\u201d in the amount of $362,400.25 as partial payment for the debt. Mr. Witmeyer&#8217;s bookkeper deposited the check in his trust account. Mr. Witmeyer was authorized to keep 1\/3 of the proceeds and was advised to wire the remaining 2\/3 to his client&#8217;s agent. Needless to say, the counterfeit check bounced leaving Mr. Witneyer with a $160,114.95 overdraft.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive <strong><em>any<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> suspicious emails from anybody you do not know promising a large amount of money for a relatively small amount of work (especially in this economy), suspect the worst. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Tarley Robinson, PLC, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Williamsburg, Virginia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_411\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jt-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-411\" title=\"jt photo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jt-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Tarley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tarley<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously\u00a0written a blog piece\u00a0warning of increased email scam activity and sophistication.\u00a0Expect more.\u00a0Another victim of these email scams has come to light, and this victim was a lawyer.\u00a0An article in Virginia Lawyer&#8217;s Weekly told the story of a lawyer victim of a successful email scam.\u00a0This blog post provides another warning against these scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,4],"tags":[131,38,88,130,39,132,90,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}