Property News · January 14, 2017

‘I thought I’d bought my first home, but I lost £67,000 in a conveyancing scam’


Howard Mollett is the victim of ‘Friday afternoon fraud’, an email scam that is the No 1 cybercrime in the legal sectorA charity worker buying his first home has had his £67,000 life savings stolen after fraudsters hacked into emails sent between him and his conveyancing solicitor.Howard Mollett’s case will send a shiver down the spine of anyone who is in the process of buying a home, or planning to do so, and comes hard on the heels of a warning from the solicitors’ watchdog that “conveyancing theft” involving hacked emails is now the most common cybercrime in legal circles. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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