Now is an extremely dangerous time to be dealing with property transactions if necessary checks are not followed. Make sure your livelihood isn’t at risk. Make sure your Solicitor or Licensed Conveyancer uses Lawyer Checker.
Criminals are stealing the identities of law firms and creating fake firms to steal house purchase funds from you. 726 reports of bogus law firms were made in 2015. £735,000 is the largest amount lost in scams to date. The biggest case to date was that of Dreamvar (UK) Ltd. v Mishcon de Reya – with a payout of over £1 million.
Nick Christophi from Hertfordshire had his solicitor send £735,000 to a firm created by fraudsters.
View ArticleAnn and Paul Lupton had their emails hacked and £340,000 was sent to the criminals.
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