Windsor Probate - Real or scam?

Mrs_Mangel

Hi there

A friend of my has been contacted by Windsor Probate saying they are trying to find her (estranged) cousin. Before she gives them what little information she has about him, does anyone know if they are for real please?

Many thanks
Mrs M

jblessing

No personal experience, but the address appears to be residential and there is no limited company by that name

Yorkshireman99

Seems legimate. There are a number of small heir hunting companies who tacle cases that the big firms with large overheads cant make a money out of.

PasturesNew

This is quite a common thing. For many reasons people are looking for people, often to do with probate.

There's a programme running on BBC1 each morning at the moment, Heirhunters. It's what they (and a hundred other) companies do.

One this morning was a man who had died - and they tried to find his relations. It turned out he'd gone AWOL from the Army in the 1960s and for the rest of their lives his mum and sister had been trying to find him - and never did. His mother used to put a Happy Birthday notice in the paper each year, his sister died in 2014.

When his relations were found, one of them - a cousin - remembered him from when they used to go to their granny's house at Xmas - and she used to wonder all those years what had happened to him and could still remember the day she was told by her mum/aunt that he'd disappeared. She was really glad he'd "had a life" and hadn't just been an unknown stranger in an unmarked grave somewhere.

Mrs_Mangel

Thank you, I passed this information on.

Mrs M