Impersonating a lawyer?

[pdisme]

Since we have some friends in the legal profession on here, I was wondering if there are laws against falsely representing yourself as an attorney, and to what extent do you have to go before they would apply? My company got a call from a disgruntled customer of one of our customers and this person was representing themselves as working for a law firm in an adjacent state, initially asking for contact and address information and then going on about how we're being named in a class action lawsuit regarding this customer for their not filling orders, etc. Once he started talking about things beyond just getting the contact info I figured something was up because no lawyer I know is going to waste time chit chatting or letting you in on what they intend to sue you for. :lol2: So anyway I was like well we'll wait to receive the paperwork. Then a few minutes later we get an abuse email report on the same customer and I realize the number of the person who emailed is the same one I was just talking to, i.e. not an attorney. :smashfreak:

[AgentTripleX]

Search for Ross Berton in here. I started a thread about him. He presented himself as a lawyer, when he was really was not. He got caught after 5 years.

[Shawn]

Dave, Ive had the exact same thing happen to me. In fact I've had some claim they worked for the FBI, some also claimed they worked for the attorney generals office. Usually I just tell the staff to hang up on the person when they start falsifying their identity and making threats. That was my old business and it attracted the worst kinds of people.

That said (and very weird you just asked this question) just last week I had a PSYCHO call my personal cell phone that he says he was able to get from the BBB (which I kinda doubt) that claimed he was a lawyer and wanted to know "where I lived", "what my name was" and he's gonna "pay me a visit" and "Im gonna be sorry" along with fuck you every other word. He called about 15 times that day and left messages too. I called my attorney just to cover myself, explained it all to him and he said real lawyers don't do that. He said to file a police report against him so it's on record.

So I paid for a people finder report on that phone number and got his name, address etc and went to the police and filed a report. The sergeant called me later that day and asked if I want to file criminal charges against him for harassment and making threatening phone calls. I said I will if they continue.

[Lexusondubs]

Since we have some friends in the legal profession on here, I was wondering if there are laws against falsely representing yourself as an attorney, and to what extent do you have to go before they would apply? My company got a call from a disgruntled customer of one of our customers and this person was representing themselves as working for a law firm in an adjacent state, initially asking for contact and address information and then going on about how we're being named in a class action lawsuit regarding this customer for their not filling orders, etc. Once he started talking about things beyond just getting the contact info I figured something was up because no lawyer I know is going to waste time chit chatting or letting you in on what they intend to sue you for. :lol2: So anyway I was like well we'll wait to receive the paperwork. Then a few minutes later we get an abuse email report on the same customer and I realize the number of the person who emailed is the same one I was just talking to, i.e. not an attorney. :smashfreak:yes it is against the law to misrepresent yourself in anyway in the state of fl iam guessing its the same all over