A month or so ago I was featured in one of the legal newspapers talking about a fraud that nearly caught me.
Briefly described the fraudster directs to a lawyer a very high quality forged bank draft for a large sum of money. The money is for an apparently legitimate transaction. The fraudster then pushes the lawyer to deposit the forged draft in trust, take the fees due, and pay the rest of the money to the fraudster.
The fraud works because the lawyer's trust cheque clears before the forgery is discovered and the lawyer is left owing the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Quite a few lawyers were caught. I was not as I discovered the fraud before paying out.
I went to the press and hence the article.
Now some said I opened myself up to ridicule and perhaps I did but since the story numerous lawyers have called to say they read the story and were thereby saved from the fraud.
That made everything worth it.
1 comment:
good for you. That took guts!
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