Fraud - Recall cash transferred by fraudsters to other accounts

Call your bank requesting them to send an indemnity to the fraudster's bank.

An indemnity is when your bank tells the bank that's received your money that you have been a victim of transfer fraud and asks it to return any money it still has.

Go to the High Court to apply for the fraudster's bank account to be frozen.

This stops money transfers in and out of an account and can be applied for at more than 40 High Court offices around the country.

You just turn up and fill in an N244 form. These are complicated, so you may need legal help.

Take identification, copies of emails from the fraudster and the crook's bank account number and sort code. It also helps to take evidence from a third-party caught up in the fraud.

Contact the fraudster's court orders department — which anyone can do by calling a bank's customer service line — to freeze the account of the fraudster.

You'll probably need to provide them with proof of the court order and other details.

Go back to court and ask the judge to order both your bank and the fraudster's bank to release all contact details and bank statements for the frozen accounts, arguing that they would be necessary to recover your stolen cash.

Using these banking details the fraudster's bank should agree to return the money.

If any of the banks has been slow in applying the freeze of the fraudster's accounts then you should also be able to reclaim compensation from the banks if they have allowed cash to be transferred elsewhere from those accounts.