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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Death Registrant..
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:49:51 +0100
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>There have been a number of scams where people have taken out an insurance
>policy on someone, registered their death, and claimed on the policy without
>the person concerned knowing about it until they go to vote or something, and
>find that they are officially dead.
It would rely on having a co-conspirator who was a doctor, or being able
to forge and known doctor's signature and handwriting in the medical
certificate of cause of death
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Eve McLaughlin

Au thor of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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