Suspicious scam link connects 5 law firms

Suspicious scam link connects 5 law firms



Five law firms and one solicitor have all fallen victim to scams which share one suspicious link… .


Five law firms and one solicitor have all fallen victim to scams which share one suspicious link.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has reported that a scam artist has been sending out e-mails to members of the public while pretending to be a partner of a genuine law firm. The regulator also noted that the telephone number that was connected to five other separate scam alerts.

The e-mails in the most recent scam are claiming to be sent from a Mr John Walker, using the same address as a genuine Birkenhead-based authorised law firm, HJ Walker Sibia.

The genuine firm, HJ Walker Sibia, which formed in 2004, specialises in residential and commercial property, where it states on its website: “We pride ourselves on receiving a very high rate of repeat instructions from satisfied clients.”

Members of the public have been receiving the scam email, which states that the recipient could gain access to the benefit of inheritance from an unknown relative.

Mr Walker from the genuine firm has confirmed to the SRA that “neither he nor the firm have any connection to the scam emails.”

The reoffending telephone number, +44 787 2282330, was also revealed to be used in other scam emails, impacting five solicitor firms and one solicitor.

The SRA recommended to “conduct your own due diligence” or contact them in order to check if individuals or firms are regulated and authorised by the authority.



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    James Findlay

    We see these scams on a regular basis. Just think how many Law Firms are going to have their main contact number as a mobile? The +44 7 is a dead giveaway and is probably being routed via a switch to Nigeria or India. Increasingly these scammers are using details of genuine firms, a recent one we came across had just moved their registered office and the scammers got hold of the new details, used a number in Birmingham, which the police have identified as a switch routing the calls abroad, and gave lots of addresses for their business which turned out to be either private houses or in the case of the "office" address a company renting mailboxes for a few quid a week. They were also trying an advance fee fraud.

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