If I have been an internet scammer — I’m not, but when I have been — I’m undecided I’d be focusing on a significant Biglaw agency. Sure, legal professionals have a well-earned repute as luddites — or at the least behind the ball on tech points, which definitely weighs in favor of them as targets. But on the opposite, maybe extra related hand, why poke a bear that has limitless elite authorized sources to throw at you?

Latham & Watkins is definitely a kind of Biglaw companies with limitless authorized sources that doesn’t take too kindly to entities that attempt to rip-off its shoppers utilizing the title of one in every of their companions. This week, the agency filed a lawsuit towards domains which can be making an attempt to impersonate Latham.

As per Law.com:

Per the grievance, the scheme started in April when the scammer registered a handful of domains that started with “LW,” a reference to Latham’s real area of LW.com. Using 38 variants that included “LW-France.com” and “LW-Frn.com,” the unknown get together tried to impersonate Paris-based associate Alexandra Bigot.

“The scammer would then email third parties to ‘remind’ them of unpaid invoices,” the grievance said. “The scammer even included vague threats to the third-party victims, suggesting that they ‘resolve it today to avoid other accusations.’”

Fortunately, because the grievance notes, Latham’s shoppers didn’t a lot fall for the rip-off, as alert Bigot her title was getting used within the scheme.

It appears unlikely that tried scammers will come ahead to defend the lawsuit, so a default judgment appears within the playing cards. Which… was at all times the almost certainly method this was going to finish.

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