{"id":43442,"date":"2017-06-28T20:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=43442"},"modified":"2017-06-28T20:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:55:15","slug":"state-supreme-court-judge-loses-over-1m-in-real-estate-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=43442","title":{"rendered":"State Supreme Court judge loses over $1M in real estate email scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please tell your buyers and sellers not to trust email when wiring money for a transaction. Always call their real estate agent to verify.<\/h2>\n

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A state Supreme Court judge was scammed out of mor\"\"<\/a>e than $1 million after being fooled by an email she thought had been sent by her real estate lawyer, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

Acting State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler, 51, was duped while trying to sell her apartment and buy another, sources said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sattler told police she\u2019d gotten an email June 7 from someone she believed was her lawyer, sources said.<\/p>\n

The person claiming to be the lawyer told her to send money to an account. She followed the instructions and wired $1,057,500 to that account, sources said. The money was then sent to Commerce Bank of China, sources said.<\/p>\n

A doorman at her Upper East Side building said the judge, who is assigned to the Manhattan criminal courts, wasn\u2019t taking visitors.<\/p>\n

Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration, declined comment based on the pending investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please tell your buyers and sellers not to trust email when wiring money for a transaction. Always call their real estate agent to verify.   A state Supreme Court judge was scammed out of more than $1 million after being fooled by an email she thought had been sent by her real estate lawyer, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}