Our advanced fee fraud barristers provide legal advice and strategy guidance on all aspects of financial crime, including advance fee fraud. Our legal experts are able to work in both the defence and prosecution of advance fee fraud cases.

What Is Advance Fee Fraud?

Advance fee fraud will be familiar to many and most will have had mail delivered either electronically or through the post with the promise of vast returns for an advance fee. In legal terms, what is advance fee fraud?

The legal advance fee fraud definition is as follows:

The targeting of victims to make advance or upfront payments for goods, services and/or financial gains that do not materialise.

These crimes involve a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money, in the hope of realising a significantly larger gain, such as money, products or services.

Advance fee fraud examples:

  • Ticket scams
  • Work from home/business opportunity scams
  • Loan scams
  • Lottery prize draw scams
  • Career opportunity scams
  • Impersonation of officials
  • Online dating scams
  • Rental fraud
  • Fraud recovery fraud
  • Inheritance fraud
  • 419 scams

For more information about the types of advance fee fraud, similarly, check out our blog posts for advance payment scams our barristers have worked on.

A factor common in many confidence frauds is that the offender targets a vulnerable victim. It is, therefore, a determinant of seriousness for this type of fraud. An offender is more culpable if he or she deliberately targets a victim who is vulnerable as a result of old age, youth, or disability, and there is a more than a usual serious degree of harm where the victim is particularly vulnerable. Losses made as a result of an advance fee scam can be large, and the emotional and psychological cost can be even higher.

Our fraud barristers are recognised experts in advance fee fraud cases. Get in touch to find out how we can help with your case.

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Advance Fee Fraud Barristers

Sam Green KC

Sam Green KC

Head of Chambers

Call: 1998 Silk: 2015

Richard Barraclough KC

Richard Barraclough KC

Call: 1980 Silk: 2003

Simon Myerson KC

Simon Myerson KC

Call: 1986 Silk: 2003

Jonathan Sandiford - barrister headshot

Jonathan Sandiford KC

Call: 1992 Silk: 2020

Nicholas Worsley KC

Nicholas Worsley KC

Call: 1998 Silk: 2023

Nigel Sangster KC

Nigel Sangster KC

Call: 1976 Silk: 1998

John Harrison KC

John Harrison KC

Call: 1994 Silk: 2016

Cameron Brown KC

Cameron Brown KC

Call: 1998 Silk: 2020

Jeremy Barnett

Jeremy Barnett

Call: 1980

Derek Duffy

Derek Duffy

Call: 1997

Alasdair Campbell
Danielle Graham - barrister headshot

Danielle Graham

Call: 2003

James Lake

James Lake

Call: 2005

George Hazel-Owram
Kristina Goodwin
Thomas Cowan - barrister headshot

Thomas Cowan

Call: 2024

Hannah Hinton

Hannah Hinton

Call: 2008

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Chambers is centrally located within walking distance of the train station, secure car parks and the Courts.

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St Pauls Chambers
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Leeds
LS1 5JF

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