The technology boom has provided opportunities for practitioners to work more efficiently by making available a host of timesaving, as well as cost-effective, tools. Sadly, modern technology has also provided the less scrupulous segments of society with opportunities to take advantage of others. All too familiar are the Nigerian money scams that arrive in email boxes on a regular basis, but new versions of that scam are continuously being developed. Educators are potential victims of several of the games that are afoot. In this article, the authors describe a few scams that educators should beware of and advise educators to contact their attorneys before retaining any services related to their institutions, intellectual property, or online activity. When in doubt, due diligence would be appropriate in order to determine whether the requested service or opportunity has any merit whatsoever. In addition, people should seek out attorneys who are diligent in assisting clients and engaging in self-protection whenever unusual communications are received. It is clear that hard economic times cause desperate people to do desperate things. It is also clear that there is a host of amoral individuals who continuously invent new schemes for the purpose of separating people from their hard-earned money. Caution, diligence, and research may be the only tools educators have to combat the prospect of being the next victim.