{"id":40633,"date":"2017-01-14T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-thought-id-bought-my-first-home-but-i-lost-67000-in-a-conveyancing-scam\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T14:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T07:28:29","slug":"i-thought-id-bought-my-first-home-but-i-lost-67000-in-a-conveyancing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-thought-id-bought-my-first-home-but-i-lost-67000-in-a-conveyancing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I\u2019d bought my first home, but I lost \u00a367,000 in a conveyancing scam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHoward Mollett is the victim of \u2018Friday afternoon fraud\u2019, an email scam that is the No 1 cybercrime in the legal sectorA charity worker buying his first home has had his \u00a367,000 life savings stolen after fraudsters hacked into emails sent between him and his conveyancing solicitor.Howard Mollett\u2019s 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\u2019 watchdog that \u201cconveyancing theft\u201d involving hacked emails is now the most common cybercrime in legal circles. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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