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Another Lawyer Falls for Nigerian E-Mail Scam

Richard T. Howell Jr. is a Houston lawyer who got scammed by some Nigerians working out of an Internet cafe.  He is speaking out, presumably to warn other lawyers with bad judgment not to send hundreds-of-thousands of dollars to complete strangers.  He and Gregory Bartko should start giving CLEs.As is the case with most "victims" of financial frauds, Howell's greed did the thinking for him:Howell says that with a 33.3 percent fee, the prospect of collecting $3.6 million in unpaid invoices for the client was a big lure. "To me, it sounded like it could be a potentially lucrative client from Japan," Howell says.I, too, would like to make $1.2 million for doing little work.  Honest work that pays so well is hard to find.  If you're a very successful plaintiffs' lawyer, you might build a pyramid that allows those types of fees to work up to you...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).