Across the country, immigration lawyers, Department of Justice-accredited representatives, and nonprofit legal service providers are seeing a sharp rise in impersonation scams targeting immigrant communities. Although unauthorized practitioners have long exploited vulnerable individuals, mid-2025 brought a wave of more coordinated and sophisticated schemes. These scams primarily operate on Facebook and WhatsApp, where bad actors use paid ads, thousands of followers, and convincing branding to pose as legitimate attorneys or nonprofit legal organizations. Colleagues from Catholic Charities USA have shared that roughly one-third of Catholic Charities agencies across the country have reported encountering fraudulent activity involving scammers misusing their names or logos. Similar impersonation has affected private practitioners and other well-known nonprofits, some of whom discover the fraud only after victims contact them to inquire about the status of their cases. Meta’s platforms remain the most common locations for these scams, and attempts to have fraudulent accounts or ads removed have had mixed results.