I'm well aware that something which sounds too good to be true probably is. But it did bring home to me that the old man might have had shares we didn't know about. I'd like to find out, anyway, and go through the right channels of selling them if he did.
I basically know nothing about shares, but my late dad (died 3 years ago) apparently had some here and there. Now we just got a phone call today from an Indian lady (enough to put me on my guard at once) claiming to be from America, saying she had a buyer who wished to buy my dad's 250 shares in...