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 ...

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 ...

If you've received a letter or message about a multi-million-dollar inheritance from a relative you didn't know about, it's ...

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 simplistic text message scam promising unsuspecting Australians hundreds of thousands of dollars in inheritance money is making the rounds. Messages from someone using the moniker 'F. Chu' say the ...

Suffolk Trading Standards has warned households to beware of scam letters being sent to homes in the county promising millions of pounds in inheritance. The letter, which claims to be from a genuine ...

Police in Guernsey are warning islanders about an inheritance scam letter circulating the bailiwick. It claims someone has died, leaving them a sum of €2,500,000. Nobody has fallen for the scam as far ...

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TRADING standards officers are warning people to be on their guard against Internet scams promising a false inheritance. The latest scam discovered by the Middlesbrough Council team is an e-mail from ...

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 ...