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Protecting Your Estate from Scammers
A recent article in the Law Society Gazette reports how the Government’s Bona Vacantia team has withdrawn its list of unclaimed estates to limit frauds.
The Bona Vacantia deals with estates where the beneficiaries (if any) are unknown. The list that had been issued was used by genealogy companies to search for relatives of the deceased and find the beneficiaries of their estates.
The BBC has a new Radio 4 podcast on the theft of inheritances: Shadow World: The Grave Robbers, a new BBC Radio 4 podcast launches an original investigation of gangs faking wills to steal inheritance
This is another area of focus for scammers and fraudsters, seeking to benefit from deceased estates by faking wills and seeking to claim the estates.
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