Although less frequent as of late, we consistently receive inquiries on our various Garg & Associates, PC websites, from “clients seeking counsel” to rectify outstanding past due fees owed to them. Usually, these scam artists (we will call them schemers for short) pose as CEOs and VIPs of big corporations allegedly located in Nigeria, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, etc., and they typically claim to have outstanding amounts owed to them, which range from $500,000.00 – $5,000,000.00.  I confess, that we have engaged in communications with these schemers in the past (thought they were legitimate inquiries), and recently, we have done so, just to see how far the scam goes.  A few months ago, we even received a phony check (which looked legitimate) from one of these schemers, and only discovered it was a fraudulent check when we took it to the bank.  Can you imagine?

So, to all you international scam artists….don’t waste your time or ours…we are on to you!