"$12.85 million" Tracing Relative Scam

bargainbetty

It's worth noting that a website is now offering free email addresses ending with the suffix @lawyer.com. I work for legal professionals, and we've three messages this week advising us that people have 'borrowed' the names of our legals to register accounts and are targeting people with scams. It's a proper pain in the backside getting the emails shut down each time because there are still gullible idiots who respond to these scams.

moxter

Whilst the email posted above is an obvious scam, that doesn't automatically mean that comms of this nature are scams. My dad was written to out of the blue by a lawyer telling him that a relative who he's never heard of had died with no will and no close relations. Understandably he thought it was a scam, but many months later, he received a tidy windfall from this relative hitherto unknown to him.