We would like to remind Bar members to be diligent when it comes to recognizing scam emails.
A recent scam that has been brought to our attention involves a scammer impersonating a Bar officer, claiming to be in charge of supervision of membership for the attorney’s firm. The scammer provides a link in the email to a “request” and asks that the attorney review the request and respond by a certain date. The scammer also provides a fake case reference number, and the email appears to be sent from a Bar Association email address. Please know that Bar officers do not receive a Bar specific email address and would never send an email of this nature to members. Thankfully, the attorney who received this email contacted the Bar directly and we informed the attorney that the email was a scam.
Other phishing scams to be aware of involve emails, purportedly sent from me as Bar President or other officers, circulated to several members of the Bar. If you receive an email from myself or another officer that you were not expecting and which comes from a strange email address (the emails are spoofed, but if you hover over the sender's name you can sometimes see that the address does NOT actually belong to the sender), please do not respond to the email or click on any links; delete the email immediately. These emails often ask the person receiving the email if they are "free at the moment." When the receiver responds, the scammer asks the receiver to procure several gift cards for the sender as a favor. Please be advised that the president of the Bar Association would never send emails of this nature to members.