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2. The Most Common Real Estate Scams and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Here’s are some of the ways scams pan out, with scammers pretending to be a real estate agent, title agent or lender. They may do the following: Create fake rental/ sale listings to request a ...

3. Real estate scams are on the rise. Here’s what you ... - AOL

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   For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. ... The contact number and email listed, however, wasn’t hers. ... Real estate scams are nothing new. But as rents ...

4. A New Scam Is In Town, Title Fraud, And Real Estate Pros ...

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   FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report revealed there were 9,521 real estate-based fraud complaints in 2023, which resulted in over $145 million in losses. The fraudsters wisely ...

5. Woodbridge Securities - Wikipedia

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   On August 7, 2019 Robert H. Shapiro, the former CEO of the Woodbridge Group of Companies, pled guilty and admitted in Miami federal court that he "misappropriated" between $25 million and $95 million of the investors' money to allow him and his family to pay for an estate in the Los Angeles area, chartered planes, global travel, jewellery ...

6. How to protect yourself from real estate wire fraud - AOL

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   A dream home became a nightmare when Raegan Bartlo and her husband lost $255K to real estate wire fraud. Learn how this elaborate scam works — and how to spot the signs you're about to be their ...

7. Mortgage fraud - Wikipedia

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   Mortgage fraud by borrowers from US Department of the Treasury [7]. Mortgage fraud may be perpetrated by one or more participants in a loan transaction, including the borrower; a loan officer who originates the mortgage; a real estate agent, appraiser, a title or escrow representative or attorney; or by multiple parties as in the example of the fraud ring described above.

8. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

9. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...