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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I received an email last week from a “David Holden <<a href="mailto:david1@ucdavisedn.com" target="_blank">david1@ucdavisedn.com</a>>” , <b>Subject:</b> RealEstate Attorney Search. The message said. ”<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>We are purchasing new property at the moment. Please we need the assistance of a real estate attorney to help us close our real estate transaction. Please let us know if you would be able to assist us. Upon hearing from you, I will send you the property address and the completed and signed contract”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I responded by asking him for some basic information and how was I referred to him, etc. Next thing I know without responding to my basic questions and how to retain me I get an email with the following: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>“Thank you so much for the following up with our request. We are already pre approved. Attached is the property address and the Executed contract. Please Kindly {CLICK HERE} to view all the attached documents. Please go through them and advise when we can set up a phone call? Thank you for assistance during this process. David”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This looks like a new phishing scheme. By the way the second email I received was from a different email address.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Be aware and careful.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Nestor Gorfinkel, Attorney at Law <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Admitted to practice law in Washington & Florida <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Florida Civil-Law (International) Notary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Puget Property Legal Services<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>11900 NE First Street Suite 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Bellevue, WA 98005</span></b><b><span style='color:#385623'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Tel. (425) 961-0519<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Fax. (888) 522-3601<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>ATTENTION - </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This e-mail message and any attachment to this e-mail message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not review, retransmit, convert to hard copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by telephone at the phone numbers provided herein and delete this message. Please note that if this e-mail message contains a forwarded message or is a reply to a prior message, some or all of the contents of this message or any attachments may not have been produced by the sender.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#009900'>P</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#009900'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#009900'>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>