I have received a fake legal notice, with unreachable phone number and unidentified address and fake lawyer enrollment number. The notice has caused my family severe stress. I know the person who might have done this illegal act. What should I do?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 07:06
If you know it’s a fake, there’s really no need to stress out about it.
This is a common scam making the rounds right now. I’ve received several such phony legal notices, and wrote about them here:
Report them to your local police and your local Bar Association, if you’re in the US.
There’s actually a person out there offering this as a service: you can give him (or her, I have not been able to find them) money and they’ll send out fake “legal notices” from a fictitious “law firm” that doesn’t exist, with a phony website using AI generated faces for the “law firm”’s lawyers and a Photoshopped picture of a 3D rendering of a university administration building as a picture of the law firm’s headquarters.
The address of the fake law firm leads here, according to Google Street View:
I’ve reported it to law enforcement, but perhaps as expected nothing came of it.