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Don't give property sale fraudsters the keys to your cash
The Sentinel
|October 04, 2025
A CAMPAIGN warning of criminals posing as solicitors, estate agents or buyers to divert payments during home sales has been launched. Victims typically lose more than £80,000.
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Payment diversion fraud during property sales involves criminals intercepting and redirecting legitimate funds used in home purchases. The aim is to manipulate victims into transferring house deposit funds and/or balance of purchase funds to fraudsters instead of their legitimate destination.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) and The Law Society have launched the joint campaign aimed at solicitors and conveyancers.
It is being delivered with the Home Office's Stop! Think Fraud campaign.
Action Fraud figures show that from April 2024 to March 2025, there were 143 reports of this type of payment diversion fraud, with victims losing an average of £82,000.
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