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Share sale fraud

Pablo70 · 2016-07-18 09:21:16

Good morning, I wonder if anyone can help. It would seem someone has completed a letter of indemnity to enable my mother's shares to be sold without her knowledge. The share sale happened in 2006 and the registrars are putting the onus on my mum to prove she didn't sell them. My mum still has the share certificates (but…

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Gadfium Posts: 763 Forumite

4 August 2016 at 3:41PM

tomthered wrote: »

Surely despite all this a theft has occurred, no matter what the timescale, and the police should be involved as its fraud?. Another point is that the name was misspelt, so if an account was opened in his mothers name, to cash the shares, which bank did this as would they not need identity papers, like passport or driving license?

Limitation Act 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_Act_1980

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