Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

21 Years Fighting Fraud - An Insider's Account #PositivePay #FraudPrevention #youtubeshorts

25 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube short, the speaker—who has spent 21 years working alongside attorneys—describes the most common fraud he has observed targeting lawyers. Fraudsters obtain attorneys’ contact information and details about the cases they are handling, often from publicly available records. Posing as parties involved in a settlement, the scammers contact the attorneys and demand payment, claiming the money is needed to finalize the settlement. The speaker notes that this scheme has successfully defrauded attorneys on two or three occasions over his career.

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I've been working with attorneys now for 21 years. And the most common fraud I have seen over those 21 years are the fraudsters who somehow get ahold of the attorney and they know what cases they're working on, which is generally public record sometimes. Yeah. And they contact them and pretend like they're part of going to be part of the settlement. And they're like, you need to send me this much money, blah, blah, blah. I'm giving it all kind of in a little nutshell. And I've seen attorneys be burned on this 2 or 3 times.