CLAYTON – A local attorney’s office has been scammed out of a large sum of money. The Clayton attorney was refinancing a mortgage loan on a home for a 34 year-old Johnston County man.
According to interim Clayton Police Chief Greg Tart, during the process, the attorney who was handling the refinancing was contacted by a person claiming to be their client. The attorney ended up wiring $239,137.24 to an account that was fraudulent.
The attorney later realized that someone had been posing as the homeowner and email communications showing conversations between the attorney and the homeowner were made from a fictitious email account.
Chief Tart said the investigating is ongoing. Police detectives are also working to try and recover the money.
How do you scam an attorney, They are the ones that normally scam us?
Attorneys do their own paperwork. I thought they had Secretaries/Paralegals for that. Yeah itz oh I don’t believe that sh*t for me. fishy