Solicitor going bust during house sale, and scammers showing up on doorstep
Hello chaps,
Bit of an odd turn of events causing my mother in law an awful lot of stress. After any pointers or experience from the collective wisdom.
She has just moved house, sold her old place and moved in to the new one. She is still awaiting probate, but the sellers are letting her live there in the meantime.
But... She called the solicitor today, and the line was dead. She went to the office, and it was cleared out and empty.
Also, very bizarrely, yesterday her old neighbours called. A young couple turned up at her old house and asked the neighbours for a key as they were there to collect mail. They mentioned her first name the area she's moved to. They then said they were family - which they clearly were not.
So.. a rather worrying set of events.
She is very worried that the solicitor has done a runner with her money/ mortgage money, including her equity.
Any advice on who else she should contact/ what she ought to do?
Any view on why the couple would try to access her old house (now sold and paid for)?
I did a bit of a Google and told her to call the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the first instance, and report the suspicious behaviour to the Police. She has also told the buyer of her old place so he's going to keep an eye on it (currently empty).
All sounds very bizarre to me.
