Friday Afternoon Fraud - Cyber Fraud - Property Completion

csgohan4

I called the solicitors using the number on their website not the email with bank info.

If your sending that amount of money, no harm in taking a few steps to ensure security, what's a phone call going to cost?

Slithery

It's a well-known scam that's had coverage in the mainstream media for years now.

I physically visited my solicitors to double-check the account details before transferring £40k for my last purchase, even though I hadn't received any notification of account changes and was using the details they'd snail-mailed to me with the contract. As csgohan4 said it's a trivial amount of effort for such an important transaction.

Regarding the OP there's a massive difference between the solicitors internal systems being compromised and the simple spoofing of an email header. In the former you'd expect to be covered by their insurance whereas for the latter it would be the OP's fault. Can you prove that the former was what happened?

kingstreet

DoaM wrote: »

Diary of a madman, Walk the line again today, Entries of confusion, Dear diary, I'm here to stay

Always makes me think of Randy Rhoads.

Thank you.