THE SUN
A COMPANY has been accused of wiring over a million dollars from a lawsuit to a fraudster, causing a major new legal battle.
Sinacom North America, a manufacturing company, is suing the law firm, Clark Hill, for allegedly sending the business’s settlement money to a hacker.
Sinacom North America won a settlement for $1.1 million in August with the manufacturing company Golden Technologies, according to the complaint filed Monday.
The lawsuit claims that scammers had broken into Sinacom North America email addresses to impersonate executives and target the settlement.
In what the filing called an “obvious scam,” the fraudster instructed lawyer Steven Richman, who’s also named in the lawsuit, to wire the money to a JP Morgan Chase bank account for a company that Sinacom claimed was fake.
Within the email, there was said to have been “poor grammar and typos,” which the company believes should have given a clue to the law firm.
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