Frauds and Scams

At Burges Salmon, your security is important to us. Occasionally, we are made aware of potential frauds and scams involving the firm or our peoples’ names. If you receive a communication purporting to be from Burges Salmon and you are in any doubt about whether or not it is genuine, please telephone your usual Burges Salmon contact via +44 (0) 117 939 2000 to obtain confirmation or use our online Contact us form. Please exercise particular caution if you are contacted by someone via social media, purporting to be from Burges Salmon.

We report fraudulent activities involving the firm’s name or our people’s identities to the relevant regulatory and law enforcement agencies. You can also report confirmed suspicious e-mails that you receive (also known as phishing e-mails) to the National Cyber Security Centre’s Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) at [email protected].

Our email domain

The genuine Burges Salmon email domain is ‘@burges-salmon.com’. The following are examples of domains and e-mail addresses we have identified as being used to impersonate either the firm or its people and are not genuine:

Warning: Money Transfers to Burges Salmon

Burges Salmon’s bank account details are unlikely to change. Please disregard any email communication which instructs you to send funds to an alternative account, even if it appears to have been sent on behalf of the firm.

Prior to making any payments to Burges Salmon, you should telephone to confirm our bank details using the contact numbers published in the Solicitors Register on the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s website before sending us any money. 

Warning: Individual purporting to represent Burges Salmon’s Resourcing team

We have received reports that an individual in the Bristol area has been approaching members of the public about career opportunities with the firm. This individual, who introduces himself as Haroon Shahid (which may not be their real name), is neither an employee of Burges Salmon nor otherwise known to the firm. It is also not the practice of our Resourcing team to make unsolicited approaches about such opportunities.  
 
If you are in any doubt as to whether an individual is associated with Burges Salmon, please contact us using the telephone number listed on this website or on the SRA’s Solicitors Register.