Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C., has been providing legal counsel for 75 years through its offices in Phoenix and Peoria, Arizona and Washington, D.C. You should also file a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. To learn more about this scam, or to file a complaint, visit the FCC website. If you believe you have been a victim of this scam, please contact your attorney. So, how are the spoofers getting this information? Most likely, they have obtained the client and attorney names/relationship through publicly available court documents.

When the client calls the toll-free number, they are given instructions on how to pay the debt.

The client is then given a toll-free number to call.

The caller ID shows the number belongs to his/her lawyer.Other scammers simply indicate that additional fees must be paid to the attorney.įollowing is an outline of how the scam works:

Some consumers have even been threatened with arrest if they fail to wire money to pay the debt. Recipients of the calls are instructed to immediately wire money to satisfy a debt that supposedly is outside the bankruptcy proceeding. Most recent targets are consumers who have filed, or in the process of filing, for bankruptcy. “Spoofers” have disguised themselves as representatives of banks, creditors, insurance companies, and even the IRS. law and Federal Communication Commission (FCC) rules. Most types of spoofing are prohibited by U.S. Spoofing is used to trick someone into giving out personal or financial information so that it can be used in fraudulent activity or sold illegally. The process is referred to as Caller ID “spoofing.” It allows callers to deliberately falsify the information transmitted to Caller ID displays, effectively disguising their real identity. Attorneys and their clients have joined the ranks of victims affected by a new scam that attempts to obtain personal and financial information for fraudulent use.

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