Criminals are actively targeting property purchases, with the aim of tricking you into transferring them your house deposit and/or the balance of purchase monies to them in a Payment Diversion Fraud tactic called conveyancing fraud. These schemes can be highly sophisticated, and almost always involve the criminals pretending to be your lawyer in order to con you into diverting your payment to an account they control. Be extremely vigilant if there appears to be any change of payment details, and
Source: Conveyancing fraud – a type of Payment Diversion Fraud which can be utterly devastating