From: “Tanaka Masato”<tanasato@accamail.com>
Reply-To: <tanakamasato@accamail.com>
Subject: divorce settlement (Collaborative Law Agreement)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:43:54 -0400
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Counsel
My name is Tanaka Masato.
I am a contacting your firm in regards to a divorce settlement with my ex husband
Paul Masato).who resides in your jurisdiction. I am currently on assignment in Japan . We had an out of court Agreement (Collaborative Law Agreement) for him to pay $448,450.00 plus legal fees. He has only paid me $44,000 since.
I am hereby seeking your firm to assistance in collecting the balance from him.. He has agreed already to pay me the balance but it is my belief that a Law firm like yours is needed to help me collect payment from my ex-husband or litigate this matter if he fails to pay as promised.
Sincerely,
Tanaka Masato
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James J. Gross
// Oct 12, 2009 at 8:31 am
I'm a divorce lawyer and I've gotten two of these with different names. One actually sent a cashier's check for $85,500 by FedX and called me about it. They want you to deposit the check in your bank account, subtract your fee and write them a check for the balance. The cashier's check is a fake but your bank will take it. I turned it over to the police.
Juliet Krassenstein
// Oct 13, 2009 at 9:58 am
We received this one, with a check via fedex for $404,000. We reported it to the US Postal Inspector's Office, which handles mail fraud. You can also report these things to your state attorney general's office.
Dean
// Dec 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
We got a check for $175,000.00 drawn against Harris Bank. They verified it was a fake check. Still trying tyo figure out what to do with it. LAPD doesn’t want it.
Leslie
// Jan 26, 2010 at 2:28 pm
We got a check for $300,000 which was returned for insufficient funds. Got another email since. I reported it to my State Bar Association.
Brian
// Jan 26, 2010 at 2:29 pm
And to your local police or the FBI?