Can you move your pension to dodge inheritance tax? Fraudsters say so

Pension scams often start with emails, calls or messages arriving out of the blue. Photograph: Moon Safari/Alamy

The caller pitches a great deal. Shift the moneysaved in your pension and reinvest it in a scheme overseas where you can avoid it being caught under next year’s changes to the UK’s inheritance tax (IHT) system.

From April next year, any money left in a defined contribution pension after your death, which is most workplace and all private pensions, will be pulled into the IHT net.