Courtesy of the American Bar Association, shared with permission.

Matthew Peters has seen a lot in the twelve years he’s provided services at the Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center in Easton. But on May 13th, just after reading a newsletter about immigration scams, he saw one himself.

A young couple, originally from Guatemala, came into his office. They’d missed their court date and panicked.

“They said… a friend sent us a Facebook link, and then we clicked on it,” he recounted. “Then, someone called us and said they were an attorney and that they could reopen our case, and they can give us our papers and all that.”

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.