His success offers hope to other fraud victims because it shows banks and customers can recover stolen cash after it has left a victim's account — if they act fast enough. The father-of-two, practising from Ten Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in London, transferred £20,400 on January 2 after exchanging a series of emails with the imposter posing as his builder.  The next day he received a distressing call from his wife Esther, 39, as he dropped his four-year-old daughter at school. The builder had checked his emails and found messages to a number of customers demanding payment to a bank account he did not recognise. He said he hadn't sent the emails and wanted to warn clients he'd been hacked.

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