Landlords must protect against registration fraud after mortgage adviser Feruza Mettrick is convicted of scam | Mail Online

Landlords must protect against registration fraud after mortgage adviser Feruza Mettrick is convicted of scam | Mail Online

Fraudster Feruza Mettrick was jailed for five years last week, after attempting to scam lenders out of millions by stealing landlords’ identities, in a case heard at Leeds Crown Court.
On the back of this case, landlords are being advised to check that their properties are correctly registered with the Land Registry to protect from possible registration fraud and ID theft.
This involved a fraudster impersonating the real owner of a property, they can take out a mortgage against it ....