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June 25, 2025 – Multiple state bars have reported a phishing scam involving fraudulent emails that appear to come from bar leadership or staff. The scam email is designed to look like an official communication from the State Bar.

It could use a deceptive email address — something like l.martin@wisbar.org.securemsg.com — that is not affiliated with the State Bar of Wisconsin.

If you see a return email address like this, it is a scam.

Members should not respond to

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Scams are growing more and more sophisticated with each passing year. Avoiding scams can be difficult, due to both how common they are and how convincing they can appear to be. The elderly are perhaps the most common targets for Social Security and Medicare scams, although people of all ages can and do fall victim to scam artists. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that victims lost millions of dollars to social security scams in 2018 alone, and that…
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