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Sending Share Certificates in the Post

WPRSEngineer · 2023-04-11 14:53:39

I hold some paper share certificates, I want to turn them into digital certificates. To do this I need to send them to another organisation (either a broker or the share registrar who issued the certificates - in this case Equiniti. I have been told I need to fill in a form and then send the share certificates to Equiniti.…

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Steve_666_ Posts: 235 Forumite

12 April 2023 at 10:04AM

WPRSEngineer said:

Thanks for the information,

I guess I’m a little paranoid. But as the certificate represents the shares I’d like to know if someone could in theory intercept and transfer the shares out of my name and into theirs.

Given a high value, I might be tempted to take a day and delivery by hand, get a "name" to sign for them.

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