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NLJ this week: A brighter future for authorised push payment fraud victims?

02 August 2024
Issue: 8082 / Categories: Legal News , Fraud
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Three recent High Court decisions have brought fresh hope for the increasing numbers of victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud, Ashley Fairbrother, partner, and Oliver Fredrickson, associate, Edmonds Marshall McMahon, write in this week’s NLJ

Not only is APP fraud (a scam where a criminal tricks people into transferring money to them) on the rise, but the options for recovery have until recently looked fairly bleak. Fairbrother and Fredrickson highlight that, in 2023, ‘there were a staggering 232,429 reported cases of APP fraud in the UK, causing some £459.7m of loss to victims’.

They write that, for APP victims, the ‘usual course involves obtaining worldwide freezing orders and ancillary disclosure orders against the recipient bank only to find the stolen funds have long since gone’.

However, the tide may be about to turn. The authors cover the three recent decisions, examine their potential impact on APP cases and explain why the ‘landscape surrounding APP fraud now looks a great deal brighter for victims’. 

Issue: 8082 / Categories: Legal News , Fraud
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