Fraud Alert or Illegal Use of Name

There are illegal scams in operation where the Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP or Finnegan Europe LLP name (or variation of) and/or the names of the firm’s lawyers are being abused.

The Finnegan name and sometimes the names of individual lawyers within our firm have been used in various fraudulent scam emails, letters, instant messages, and phone calls. Fake LinkedIn profiles have also been created or associated with Finnegan to impersonate our firm.

You should exercise caution if you receive any unexpected or unusual communications which purport to come from a member of our firm. Genuine emails from Finnegan use the domain “@finnegan.com”. We are aware that there have been attempts to use domain names similar to ours to impersonate our lawyers and other employees. If you need to check with us whether a communication is genuine, please contact us* to confirm before replying or taking further action, and include "INSERT" in the subject line so your email can be properly filtered.

Fraudulent communications involving use of the firm’s name typically seek to identify a victim by suggesting that a copyright infringement or a job can be obtained by paying an upfront fee. Another variant is to send demands for money in relation to non-existent claims; or to chase for payment of a fictitious invoice. Sometimes fake documents referring to the firm’s name and/or its lawyers are sent to the victim.

Common examples include:

• fraudulent emails impersonating a Finnegan attorney requesting invoice payment or redirecting funds to a fake bank account
• emails sent from Gmail accounts purporting to be from Finnegan and alleging copyright infringement
• unexpected requests purporting to be from a Finnegan partner and asking the recipient to execute a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) through an online document execution platform in connection with a confidential, time-sensitive transaction
• offers to recover funds that the recipient has lost through trading in cryptocurrencies or other securities
• emails purporting to be from Finnegan making arrangements for the appointment of the recipient to a new role at their existing employer and requiring execution of a non-disclosure agreement
• use of the firm’s US telephone numbers by fake credit consolidators
• offers of internships after payment of an ‘administrative fee’

We are not involved in these transactions. This is not an exhaustive list of scams. New ones are being invented all the time. Please remain vigilant for your own protection. These scams aim to get your money and/or your personal data to use in other illegal activities. They may not always request money or personal details on initial contact but will often do so after you respond.

Please also note that:

• We do not use Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo email addresses, nor email addresses such as finnegan_legalrepresentative@lawyer.com.
• You should remain alert to communications involving typosquatting (i.e. similar spellings to our website domain) and other domain mimicry by fraudulent actors. Variations are constantly being registered by fraudulent actors.
• We recommend you delete scam emails and do not reply to scam letters. For us to take action against lookalike domains, we need a copy of the original email which is attempting to impersonate Finnegan. If you have received such an email that you wish to report to us, please send a copy of the email* (as an attachment, not a forwarded message), and include "INSERT" in the subject line so your email can be properly filtered.
• We highly recommend not clicking on any links in these scam emails as the links might be malicious and may compromise your system.

*Please understand that Finnegan has no obligation to respond to your report and we may not. Therefore, if urgent action is needed to protect your rights, we strongly urge you to report suspicious emails to your local police department or other governmental authorities. For email scams, contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), comprised of the FBI and other agencies, at www.ic3.gov. For scams initiated by telephone, contact the Federal Communications Commission at www.fcc.gov. For scams conveyed by U.S. mail, contact postalinspectors.uspis.gov.

Latest update: January 2026