A New Scam: Impersonating Immigration Lawyers
Notario fraud has long plagued desperate immigrants. Here is a new scam. Itzel Luna for the Los Angeles Times reports that
"[i]mmigration law scams surged . . . since the Trump administration’s crackdown resulted in thousands of new cases flooding the court system . . . .
The area of law has always been ripe for fraud, but the hustles have evolved, getting more sophisticated in the past year. Most recently, scammers have been taking on the identities of practicing attorneys.
Some rely on AI to generate realistic-looking attorney photos and websites. Other scammers take videos and photos from real practicing attorneys and overlay different audio to trick immigrants into sending them money."
