A scheming duo took over a dying elderly woman’s Queens home while she was on hospice care — but her family uncovered the fraud with a congratulatory piece of mail, officials said Thursday.

Deepa Roy, 68, and Victor Quimis, 39, forged Renuka Bherwani’s signature to “steal” the Kew Gardens Hills house she had lived in for 40 years without paying a cent, according to the New York Attorney General’s Office and a criminal indictment.

The heartless pair made a phony deed on Oct. 13, 2024 while Bherwani was on hospice and suffering from dementia, before she died of old age in June of this year, according to officials and her family. 4

“I was angered beyond belief because I was dealing with the sadness of imminently losing my mother and at the same time dealing with fraudsters who were tr

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