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The Problem

It is commonly advised that you continually check county websites for activity on your property, or engage a third party that provides that service, but that only tells you that something has already occurred. What occurred is that an unsuspecting buyer of your property has now transferred funds to a fraudster, and as the owner of a title company I can tell you that once that deed is recorded, the funds are disbursed within minutes, and transferred out of the U.S. within a few hours. Watching public records only tells you that the fraudster has now transferred title. The unsuspecting buyer is not going to be happy to say the least and will likely put up a fight to keep from losing the property they think they have now purchased. There will be a mess to clean up at best. At worst, you will be embroiled in litigation to get your property back and there is no guarantee that you will.

Real Estate Fraud has become easier to commit. Covid created a need for people to be able to execute documents remotely, which opened a hole from fraudsters to jump in. Fake identification and video conferencing, along with the lack of a database containing legitimate contact information property owners (which could be used to verify the desire to sell by the actual property owner), has opened the door and fraudsters have bulldozed right through. Here is a video describing how easy it is from a former thief:



The U.S. States Secret Service has observed a sharp increase in reports of real estate fraud associated with vacant land and unencumbered property. Criminals are posing as real property owners and through a series of impersonations are negotiating the sale of properties which are vacant or lien free.

"The fraud is often discovered when recording the transfer of property documents with the relevant county. This scheme has particularly affected elderly and foreign real property owners, but it is not limited to these groups, because there are not means to automatically notify the legitimate owners. Therefore ,the burden of verification is on the real estate and title companies". See the full memo here:

Real Estate Scams - Vacant Properties (certifid.com)

The Secret Service issued further warnings in this video. United States Secret Service on Seller Impersonation Fraud | CertifID on Vimeo

The problem is getting worse and more complicated by the day, as AI technology is making fraudulent transactions look more and more legitimate, and organized crime syndicates are getting involved. Please read this article How Title Agent Fight Crime Without a Badge | CertifID

Fortune also provides this article warning about scammers impersonating sellers. Read at With fewer sellers on the housing market, more scammers are impersonating them

The Solution

My Home Title Guard is the only company that can provide solutions to Crime Warnings.

Sign up to be included in our secure Do Not Sell list database and let us keep the real estate industry informed that you are not interested in selling your property. You can start the sign up process here:

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Take control of protecting your property and do not rely solely on the real estate industry to not make a mistake.

Not the Solution

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) has provided a list of 32 precautions and red flags for the real estate industry to consider to verify that the Seller is the legitimate property owner. You can review the list provided by ALTA here .

While performing these tasks can certainly help, fraudulent transactions are still occurring at an increasing rate, and none of these solutions give any control to the legitimate owner. Owners are simply having to put their faith in the real estate industry with no knowledge that their property is being considered for a purchase. None of these recommendations provide a pro-active solution like keeping a list or database of the legitimate property owners for the real estate industry to go to for when a transaction is proposed.

In fact, on page one of their list is the suggestion to utilize property monitoring services provided by the counties, if they offer such a service. But as the Secret Service states above, that only tells you that you are now the victim of fraud, you just know it sooner rather than later. The "deed" is done, and within hours the proceeds have likely been transferred out of the country.

Watching public records only tells you that the fraudster has now transferred title of your property to someone else, and there will be a mess to clean up at best. At worst, you will be embroiled in litigation to get your property back and there is no guarantee that you will.