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Real Estate Fraud Prevention Checklist
Seller impersonation, wire fraud, deed fraud, and vacant property scams are becoming more sophisticated. Use this real estate fraud prevention checklist to identify warning signs of seller impersonation, wire fraud, deed fraud, and vacant property scams before they put a transaction at risk.
Keep it handy to spot red flags earlier and help protect your next transaction.
What's Inside the Checklist?
Seller Impersonation
Red Flags
Warning signs involving vacant property, rushed sellers, unusual communication, and questionable identification.
Wire Fraud Prevention
Simple steps to verify wiring instructions and reduce the risk of escrow-related cybercrime.
Title & Ownership Warning Signs
Common ownership issues, deed concerns, and transaction patterns that deserve extra attention.
Why This Matters
Real estate fraud is no longer limited to obvious scams. Criminals are targeting homeowners, investors, vacant properties, estates, trusts, and high-equity properties with increasingly sophisticated tactics.
As a title professional with more than 25 years of experience, I created this checklist to help Realtors, homeowners, lenders, and escrow professionals recognize potential warning signs before they become expensive problems.
Who This Checklist Is For?
Homeowners
Realtors
Estate Executors & Trustees
Investors
Want Another Set of Eyes on a Transaction?
If something feels unusual about a seller, vesting, ownership history, payoff demand, or property transfer, itu2019s better to ask early than discover the issue in escrow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
About Adrian Crandall
Senior Sales Executive | Corinthian Title Company
Real estate is full of moving parts—and the best decisions happen when someone helps connect the dots.
For more than 25 years, I’ve helped Southern California Realtors, lenders, escrow professionals, attorneys, investors and homeowners navigate title issues, housing policy, market trends and the hidden details that can delay a closing.
Through The AC Current and my Connecting the Dots series, my goal is to help real estate professionals stay informed, protect their clients and remain one step ahead.
Questions about title, vesting, probate, fraud prevention or a transaction? I’m always happy to be a resource.
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