Buffalo, New York, and several other cities are facing increased community blight from fraudulent investments. Here's how the scam sales, delinquencies, and foreclosures are impacting neighborhoods.
Read More »Real Estate and Criminal Activity: Creating the Perfect Storm
What are the implications of the rising dependence of technology and the increase in criminal activity in the housing market?
Read More »Making Property Fraud Prevention Easier
The real estate industry reported a large increase in cyber crime and fraud last year, meaning more ways of fraud prevention are necessary. See how the Federal Trade Commission giving consumers the ability to freeze accounts for free may cut down on fraud.
Read More »Real Estate vs. Wire Fraud
With the industry facing increased attention from cyber-criminals, here are some of the steps housing professionals should be taking to secure their information, and that of their clients.
Read More »Dealing with Fraud During Natural Disasters
With the Carolinas facing record high rainfall and flooding, there is plenty of risk of fraud as people may take advantage of the chaos. Click through to find out how fraudsters may use the storm to scam homeowners.
Read More »How Property Investors Can Better Identify Fraud
With increasing usage of the internet, fraud has become more complicated and harder to track for home investors. See how investment into new technologies can change this.
Read More »DOJ Finds Complaints Against Default Services Law Firm Unsubstantiated
Unsealed court documents recently obtained by DS News reveal that the United States Government has declined to intervene in a complaint against an Ohio law firm. Here’s why.
Read More »ARMCO Launches Fraud Case Manager Tool
ACES Risk Management announced the launch of its new Fraud Case Manager, a web-based project management and analysis tool aimed at centralizing fraud investigations into a single system.
Read More »Identity Fraud in Mortgage: The Threat is Real . . . and Growing
With reported wire fraud scams increasing drastically in the last year, it’s time for the industry to have a wake-up call.
Read More »Title Company Owners Launch Guaranteed Fraud Protection Platform
Wire fraud is a massive and continual threat in the mortgage world. After suffering their own losses, one title company decided to fight back with their own fraud prevention platform.
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