Beware
I am careful when answering my phone and responding to texts and emails. However, the schemes to defraud are sophisticated and devious, so even if one is careful, you can still get scammed.
I was up early the other day handling an urgent matter for a foreign associate, and I received an email from my law partner asking me if I was going to be in the office that day. Everything looked familiar, the signature block, etc. Without looking at the email address, and without really thinking, I responded. Within a few minutes my law partner was asking me to pick up Apple gift cards. At that point I figured out was being scammed. So I wrote back about an hour later that I went to my bank and unfortunately all I could take out was $5,000 and asked whether that was enough. Needless to say the scammer was very excited!
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