Scams & Fraud

As scams and other fraudulent activities occur with increasing frequency and sophistication, sometimes the names of law firms – including Alston & Bird LLP – are misused in deceptive and misleading ways. Recent examples of such scams have included:

  • copyright infringement claims designed to coerce the recipient to pay a fine
  • invoice payment requests attempting to trick the recipient to pay a fraudulent invoice or redirect payment to an inappropriate account

To Help Manage Your Risk

  • Pay close attention to signs of unusual or suspicious communications.
    • Authentic email messages from Alston & Bird are sent from the “alston.com” domain.
    • Alston & Bird does not send any business communication from a personal email domain such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook.
  • For assistance determining whether a message is trustworthy, please:
    • Reach out to a known/verified Alston & Bird contact if you have an existing business relationship with Alston & Bird.
    • Contact us before taking action in response to a suspicious message (if possible, include the original suspicious email as an attachment – as opposed to forwarding the message to us).
  • Report the fraudulent message to the email provider from which it originated:
  • Report suspicious communications to your organization’s IT department.

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