Two men were charged in court for their alleged involvement in an inheritance scam. Ng Lay Meng, 62, and Khoo Chee Wan, 59, appeared before District Judge Christopher Goh on Wednesday (8 March).

A woman inherited a huge £200,000 only to lose it all to a conman who fled to the Middle East. The victim was left devastated ...

A new report out today is recommending sweeping reform in the way fraud is dealt with in England and Wales. The House of Lords Digital Fraud Committee has spent six months looking at the systems ...

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"She showed no remorse for anything that she did," says a tearful Jessica Thomas while reflecting on how her mother spent £50,000 in inheritance money left to her own daughters. On Monday, Katherine ...

STARING at the letter Alex and Tom Renny couldn’t believe their eyes. The couple had been left a share of a £4.2 million estate by Maureen Renny, 82, a step-grandmother the couple had never even met ...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) issued inheritance scam alerts after criminals emailed recipients falsely claiming to be from a lawyer at a genuine law firm about inheritance claims. In one ...

The Accra High Court, hearing an inheritance fraud case, involving Sam Okudzeto and five others, has adjourned proceedings to January 16, 2026 to rule on an application for a stay of proceedings ...

SCAMS often target Britons with romance as a lure, a particularly cruel way to rip people off. Experts discuss the scam in this week's Scam Watch with James Walker from Rightly and Louise Baxter from ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. An asylum seeker who conned a pensioner out of more than £70,000 by promising him an £11 ...

A group of lawyers who defrauded the son of a founder by promising to resolve inheritance tax issues related to the site of an art high school in Seoul’s Gangnam District has been sentenced to prison ...