Cesar Justicia

Joy –

Victim Location 96793

Type of a scam Employment

Contacted by email, Cesar Justicia explained he was bitten by a pit bull dog on his face near his eye. Dog’s owner, Danny Haupt, doesn’t want to have a lawsuit. He will have his insurance company pay for medical treatment and settlement of $150,000.00. The attorney will receive $25,000.00 fee for legal services. Within three days a check for $175,000.00 issued by CitiBank OFFICIAL CHECK arrived by FedEx overnight envelope.

Upon notifying the client the check was deposited, Cesar Justicia didn’t want a check sent to him, due to his oil rig job in Japan. He insisted on having $150,000.00 in a bank funds transfer wired to a Hong Kong Bank. When the accountant notified him that our banking institution only sends transfers to USA banks, Cesar Justicia emailed her wire transfer banking instructions to a Georgia bank. Cesar Justicia’s contact phone number lists a Westchester County, New York area code. At that point, the accountant became suspicious that this is a set up to defraud the company out of money with a bad check scam. He was insisting the funds be wired today, both by phone and email contact with the accountant. In the meantime, she googled his name and discovered he has done this EXACT scam with attorneys all over the country. Nothing varied in his initial contact, the MO tactics are always the same (he didn’t even bother to use an alias):

1. Contact a personal injury attorney by email to explain he was attacked by a neighbor’s pit bull.

2. Facial injuries by his eye will leave permanent scars, after medical treatment.(he uses a photo available on the Internet)

3. The dog’s owner, Danny Haupt (also in on the scam), doesn’t want a lawsuit or litigation. He will have his insurance company pay the victim for his medical expenses and trauma.

4. Within a few days, an OFFICIAL CHECK for hundreds of thousands of dollars is sent to the attorney.

5. The attorney immediately deposits the settlement check into his trust account.

6. Due to his job, or traveling around the world at the moment, Cesar Justicia insists of having the funds wired to his bank account. Most of the money is transferred to the client quickly.

7. By the time the attorney figures out it was a scam, the bad check bounces and the thousands of dollars is gone.

I warn other professional business firms to be aware of the names, Cesar Justicia and Danny Haupt, as they solicit many others by email to set up their "quick and easy" money for settlements to avoid a lawsuit. They send the "insurance check" for big money, then demand a fast turnaround to wire most of the funds to the injured client.

This is a bad check scam and they are experts at making it seem so legitimate. However, they will not show up in person to file a claim, only send emails and talk on the phone.