The Houston Bar Association, in a lawsuit filed in state district court in Harris County, alleges that Walsh & Padilla is fictitious and its website touting estate planning, probate and other legal services is an elaborate front for a scam to fleece the elderly, including one victim who had $14,000 drained from a bank account. The scam involves sending letters to elderly residents in the United States and Canada informing them that they have life insurance proceeds coming to them as a pretense to gain bank account numbers and other financial details, according to court documents. The bar association on Monday obtained a court order requiring the website to shut down immediately; the bar association also said it filed a criminal complaint with the Harris Count District Attorney's Office, which declined to comment. The scam has an unusual level of sophistication, nothing like the easy to spot email entreaties for money, said Mary Kate Raffetto, a commercial litigator at Beck Redden, who has done much of the legwork to track down the scam artists. The website remains up as the bar association, which traced the operation to South Africa, tries to locate the web server and deliver the restraining order.

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