Nearly all LSC grantees make use of credit cards and/or purchase cards tied to individual retailers (Sam's Club, Office Depot, and others) to facilitate the process of making recurring or one-time expenditures. Credit cards and purchase cards offer grantees many advantages and allow grantees to make purchases with ease and efficiency.As part of its Fraud Corner Series, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is providing Legal Services Corporation (LSC) grantees with the following information and best practices to assist you in identifying and/or preventing fraud related to the use of credit…

The FBI defines BEC schemes as scams that target businesses that regularly perform wire transfers by compromising official email accounts in an attempt to conduct unauthorized fund transfers. This recent BEC scheme is the first reported scheme that has identified and targeted an LSC grantee's financial institutions in order to gain unauthorized access to their accounts (including both banking and investment accounts). 

On November 8, 2021, as a result of a joint investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, and the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Legal Services Corporation (LSC), a former Information Technology (IT) Manager for an LSC grantee entered into a Pretrial Diversion Agreement (PDA) with the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO).