Law Office of Stephanie Vardavas

10/05/2024

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10/04/2024

The machine hasn't been in use for a decade—and the hacker who exposed a flaw in it says he has confidence this year's election will be run properly.

09/18/2024

>>In 2022, an unusual case came across the desk of Erin West, a California prosecutor who specializes in cybercrime. The victim was a 30-year-old man who thought he had met his soul mate on a dating app until he realized he had been conned out of $300,000. He was so ashamed that at times he was suicidal.

West and her investigative task force pulled off something of a miracle: They recovered about 70% of the man’s money by tracing the funds to a wallet on a cryptocurrency exchange and then obtaining a warrant to freeze and seize it. It was the first time anyone was known to successfully claw back money stolen through a new type of fraud called “pig butchering,” in which scammers build victims’ trust and convince them to invest in bogus schemes.

Word spread fast. West was inundated by calls and emails from others who had been swindled by online scammers but didn’t know how to get help. Some had gone to local police and were brushed off by officers, West said. Others reported what happened to U.S. government authorities but doing so never led anywhere, as far as they could tell. Some had never told anyone before, figuring it wasn’t worth the embarrassment of admitting they had fallen for a love scam.

“There was a fire hose of victims,” West recalled. “My inbox filled up with one tragic story after another.”...

Prosecutor Erin West has been one of the few to have any success against the overseas criminal networks perpetrating a new type of fraud.

09/25/2023

New Frida Kahlo case for my new baby!

07/18/2023

HOLY S**T

There are gunners and then there's whatever this is.

01/31/2023

Greenberg Traurig wants to drop the rapper Ye as a client but has been unable to serve him with a notice of withdrawal from a copyright lawsuit, the law firm informed a federal judge Friday.

02/26/2019

I'll be leading a breakout session on "The Law of Sports Products" with Kelly Jones from Under Armour on Friday, May 17 at the annual Sports Lawyers Association conference in Phoenix. The SLA conference is a highlight of my year, every year, and I hope to see a few hundred of my friends and colleagues there!

https://www.sportslaw.org/conferences/2019conf/