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Aug 23, 2026, 11:30 AM·3 views

‘Friday afternoon fraud’: warning for UK homebuyers on bank scams

Victims have lost tens of thousands – and in one case £300,000 – due to fake emails from solicitor or estate agent You are poised to move house and are awaiting the solicitor’s instructions that things are ready to go…

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PolicyDrift‘Friday afternoon fraud’: warning for UK homebuyers on bank scams

Victims have lost tens of thousands – and in one case £300,000 – due to fake emails from solicitor or estate agent You are poised to move house and are awaiting the solicitor’s instructions.

Victims have lost tens of thousands – and in one case £300,000 – due to fake emails from solicitor or estate agent

You are poised to move house and are awaiting the solicitor’s instructions that things are ready to go and it is time to hand over your deposit. When the email arrives giving you their bank details, you set up the transfer and move the cash. And then the solicitor calls to ask where the money is.

Conveyancing fraud involves criminals getting access to an email chain between homebuyers and their solicitors or estate agents and requesting payment to a bank account they control. Sometimes the solicitor has been hacked, but often the homebuyer has been the victim of a phishing exercise.

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The Terror: Devil in Silver review – this psychiatric hospital horror is scary on so many levels

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'Pain of losing him is beyond words': Families of two police officers killed in crash pay tribute

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