Having read Jane's blog post, the obvious question to ask the "lawyer" who phoned her was why he seemed to have her telephone number but needed her to tell him her address. Either his client should have details of Jane's address from her contract, or the lawyer should already have done an address check via any one of the many public databases available to lawyers, e.g. the phone book.
My father once got a phone call from someone claiming to be a lawyer who wanted him to take out an entry in a book he'd written that mentioned his "client" (who he refused to name citing confidentiality). My dad put me on the phone with him and I spent a very happy 2 minutes regaling the many and varied ways I was going to make his life a living hell in terms of court procedure, disciplinary measures instituted via the Law Society and Solicitors Regulatory Authority and ultimately the police (given that impersonating a solicitor is a criminal offence in England). When he hung up the phone, I could almost smell the urine trickling down his leg.
Sigh.
Happy days.
Moral of the story - don't give in to shysters like this. They're snivelling little cowards and if you keep to the facts and call on them to do what they're threatening to do, they seldom follow through.
MM
My father once got a phone call from someone claiming to be a lawyer who wanted him to take out an entry in a book he'd written that mentioned his "client" (who he refused to name citing confidentiality). My dad put me on the phone with him and I spent a very happy 2 minutes regaling the many and varied ways I was going to make his life a living hell in terms of court procedure, disciplinary measures instituted via the Law Society and Solicitors Regulatory Authority and ultimately the police (given that impersonating a solicitor is a criminal offence in England). When he hung up the phone, I could almost smell the urine trickling down his leg.
Sigh.
Happy days.
Moral of the story - don't give in to shysters like this. They're snivelling little cowards and if you keep to the facts and call on them to do what they're threatening to do, they seldom follow through.
MM