What scammers do the week your spouse dies

You don't have to publish an obituary for this to happen to you. That's the first thing most people get wrong. They think the risk comes from the tribute they write, the details they share online or the words they choose for the service announcement. The risk starts before any of that. It starts the moment a death certificate gets filed. A death certificate does more than document a death. It can act like a signal that moves through government databases, county records, property filings and data