Fraud & scams

Fraudsters may use communications such as emails, text messages, letters or phone calls falsely claiming to come from a law firm or its people to attempt to obtain personal or confidential data or the payment of money. Scams of this type take many, constantly changing, shapes and forms and can be very convincing. 

If you receive any unexpected or unusual email or other communication claiming to come from Van Bael & Bellis that raises suspicions, please get in touch with your usual Van Bael & Bellis contact or email us on [email protected] to check that it is genuine before responding or taking any action. Please exercise particular caution if you are contacted via social media by someone purporting to come from Van Bael & Bellis.

Our website is www.vbb.com and our email domain is ‘@vbb.com’. Any variant of either of these is not genuine. We do not use Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email addresses. We will not contact you or seek payment from you via messaging apps. Any communications of this type purporting to be from Van Bael & Bellis are likely to be fraudulent scam attempts.

We recommend that you do not click on any links in suspicious emails or download any attachments, do not engage with letters or emails which you suspect to be fraudulent and delete any suspicious emails. Although we cannot prevent fraud attempts of this type, we will report them to our regulatory authorities, where appropriate, and will take all reasonable steps to manage and prevent future fraud attempts.