The lawyer profile faces instantly give the site a fake vibe as they look like those generated by GANS AI.
(212) 555-1979
The 555 prefix is used for directory assistance or for fictitious phone numbers (e.g., in movies):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
When I called the number, I got the expected intercept message: "We're sorry, your call can not be completed as dialed..."
It gets even better... If you search for the two phone numbers on that page together, you'll find them on a whole bunch of sites, all presumably fake businesses:
> Davis Robbins is a leading independent international law
When they were making their fake Taylor Wilson Smith site someone apparently had a copy paste error and included some text from their fake David Robbins site [1].
The fake Taylor Wilson Smith firm and the fake Mason Donald King firm both say they are at One Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10119. It is easy to find the tenant list for that building and there is, or course, no tenants with either of those names.
Another thing they botched when making up these firms is that none of the fake attorneys at Taylor Wilson Smith are named Taylor, Wilson, or Smith. Similar for the fake attorneys at Mason Donald King.
Davis Robbins, which has the same fake phone numbers as the other two, is at least at a different address, 12 Fremont Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306.
That's not even an office. It's a single-family house in a residential neighborhood.
Like the other two fake firms, none of their fake attorneys match the names of the firm.
They have an office in harvard square..
- If anyone initiates contact with you, don't trust any claims they make about their identity.
If you only trust real law firms, verify that independently with whatever authority determines which law firms are real. People need to stop using "can make a professional-looking website" as a proxy for "not a scammer".
I wouldn't catch these at first glance, but the older gentleman specifically stands out to me with the
1. tuft of hair above the right eyebrow
2. teeth far offset from center
3. soap-bubble colored noise around the hair features
These aren't unusual on their own (except #3 maybe) but all together they make the photo seem fake.
“ Hannah has spent the past twelve years making New York City his home.”
* glasses looking weird (ie. the inside of the frame not matching with the rest of the face, or optical effects not being replicated)
* hair
* teeth
I looked at the pictures and they look reasonably real. Maybe the neural networks gotten better?
https://taylorwilsonsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lad...
I thought it was the worst one as well