Fraud Claims

TMarlin Perra Law Firm Solicitors understand the devastating impact a fraud or scam can have on its victims. Firstly, there is an immediate financial loss when money, often large sums of cash, is lost to scammers. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, is the emotional impact, when people realise they’ve been duped, many of whom feel embarrassed or ashamed about what’s happened. However, if you’ve fallen prey to a financial scam you are not alone. According to UK Finance hundreds of millions of pounds worth of authorised payments are transferred to scammers every year in the UK. There has been a substantial increase in scams in recent years, with the trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector describing it as ‘a national security threat’. However, if you’re among those people who’ve suffered as a result of a fraud or scam, then there are steps we can take to recover your money.

We can help you, if you have been a victim of a scam or fraud in the United Kingdom, even if:

• You authorised the payment believing it to be genuine and think the loss is your own fault.
• You have since been unable to get your money back.
• You have recovered some money, but you haven’t recovered all your money.

Getting your money back from a scam

Marlin Perra Law Firm Solicitors has a dedicated team of solicitors who specialise in helping victims of fraud or scams. We provide national coverage, helping UK-based individuals and businesses, recover money or assets lost to fraudsters/scammers. We are experienced in dealing with: purchase scams; impersonation scams; investment scams; romance scams; advance fee scams; invoice scams and corporate scams. Our approach is simple but effective, using proven techniques and the latest technology, we help victims of fraud recover all of their lost funds.

Investigating your scam claim

We have an experienced financial mis-selling team that will initially investigate all of the financial transactions in relation to the fraud. If we believe any financial rules, regulations, codes of conduct, law and internal policies have been breached then we will complain to the financial institution and seek redress. This is always our first point to help you recover lost funds as it can allow quick redress. To assist us in this we have state-of-the-art software, developed by our subsidiary company Lawtec.ai, that allows us to quickly review financial statements and documents to identify relevant transactions and patterns of financial behaviour in order to quickly identify your losses and calculate your claim. By complaining to financial institutions such as banks, investment advisors, and cryptocurrency exchanges we also get further details of the fraud that can allow us to broaden our investigations. We also have access to software that assists us to trace money invested into crypto currency through the block chain so we can identify wallets as to where defrauded crypto currencies are sitting.

Why use a law firm to bring a fraud or scam claim?

Through a range of techniques, financial complaints and legal proceedings we can identify money lost and seek recovery through the banking system and other financial organisations. The system is set up to prevent fraud and often when Fraud has occurred, we can go after financial organisations that have let you down. We will always do this and will also seek to recover your lost money in other ways. If a scammer is identified and where necessary, we use specialist forensic accountants to help trace funds and we have a network of law firms worldwide that can assist recovery of monies hidden in offshore tax havens and foreign jurisdictions. If we identify the scammer, we can instruct agents to identify their assets to seek recovery from them. We also act for corporate clients in large frauds, where a perpetrator with assets can be identified, to freeze their assets and seek recovery through the courts. We can review the block chain to trace crypto assets and if your stolen crypto assets are in a UK or EU regulated exchange we can seek recover of these assets. We can also provide our clients with expertise in:

• Financial complaints in respect of misconduct that has assisted the fraud
• Forensic fraud investigations
• Tracing assets lost through Crypto Currency via the block chain to recover funds
• Money laundering methods used by criminals
• Scam and fraud methods used by criminals
• Cross border litigation
• Civil Litigation in the UK for Fraud and Injunctive Proceedings
• UK banking fraud and UK and cross-border cards and payments infrastructure
• FCA Principles and Financial Crime Regulations and best-practice
• Use of experts who have PACE NPCC Digital Forensics quality standards and computer-based electronic evidence best practice
• Law enforcement liaison including preparing witness statements and evidence to assist investigations