Atlanta securities lawyer Gregory Bartko said he is the victim of an Internet fraud scheme that is apparently targeting law firms throughout the country and the banks where lawyers have their escrow accounts.
As a result, Bartko is now a defendant in a federal suit by Wachovia Bank — which is seeking reimbursement for nearly $200,000 that the bank wired, on Bartko’s instructions, to a Korean bank on behalf of a company that had hired Bartko via the Internet.
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