Nation’s Dumbest Lawyer Exposed

I have previously written about a heart surgeon who was taken in by a Nigerian Advance Fee Scam where he lost 300 Thousand bucks. Now the nation’s dumbest lawyer has been exposed on TV for giving away almost 200 Thousand bucks of his own money to someone who claimed they were in Hong Kong. Watch and laugh:

From HotAir here:

How did the scam work? The conspirators sent a forgeries of cashier’s checks for over $300,000, supposedly compensation from their creditors. They told Howell to deduct his fee, and then wire the rest back. Now, while attorneys do handle these kinds of transactions, usually they would work directly with attorneys representing the creditors, or the creditors themselves, in handling the cash. The kind of arrangement presented by Howell’s clients should have raised red flags immediately, and Howell should have contacted the supposed creditors to determine the legitimacy of the checks.

Howell wound up wiring over $180,000 back to the scammers before finding out that the checks were forgeries.

But his next move is another typical of lawyers. Instead of blaming his own dumbassery for buying the magic beans for 180K, he has sued Citibank because the ATM machine he used told him that his fake check had cleared.

Anyone who tries to send you more money than you ask for and requests for you to wire the remainder back is lying to you.