I'm sure no lawyer on GC would fall for this.
Toronto lawyer Gene Colman, who has handled divorce and child-custody cases for 30 years, was immediately intrigued by the e-mail he received out of the blue.
“My name is Liana Chengjie and I am a [sic] contacting your firm in regards to a divorce settlement with my ex husband (Paul Chengjie) who resides in your jurisdiction,” read the e-mail, sent to Mr. Colman’s website (complexfamilylaw.com) last fall.
The woman explained that she was “on assignment in Hong Kong” but was trying to get her ex-spouse to live up to the terms of an out-of-court settlement under which he owed her more than $400,000.
“I thought, ‘this is an interesting case,’” Mr. Colman recalled. “I like interesting cases.”
But the message, as he soon learned when his requests for copies of government-issued identification and a phone conversation were ignored, was a fake – part of a wave of increasingly sophisticated “bad cheque” fraud attempts aimed at lawyers across Canada and the United States.
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