January 2021 Newsblog
January 2021 – Happy, Happy New Year! I know, we were all chomping at the bit, weren’t we? So, we are here now, let’s make …
Juliana Tu
Threats To Escrow ! Part 4 – Email Fraud!
Much of wire fraud that we see in the escrow industry rises from fraudsters hacking into the email accounts of clients, real estate professionals or …
Threats to Escrow ! Part 3 – Identity Fraud!
In this part 3 of my Threats to Escrow I bring up the most public of all frauds – identity fraud. Stealing someone’s identity and …
Threats to Escrow ! Part 2 – Check Fraud!
It’s not just wire fraud, my friends, that we need to worry about. Whether it is in an escrow transaction or just our daily lives, …
Threats to Escrow! Part 1 – Wire Fraud! The most prevalent threat to your escrow transaction
There is nothing, absolutely nothing worse than finding out all your hard earned money that you wired to your escrow company disappeared. Why? Because some …
A Transaction Touched by COVID-19
We are 9 months into the pandemic and many people have been laid off, furloughed, and small and large businesses have closed down. The escrow …
December 2020 Newsblog
Uh oh. Only 3 weeks to Christmas! That means only 1 week to find something and another 2 weeks to try to get it delivered …
November 2020 Newsblog
November 4, 2020, Day 1 after the 2020 Elections Well, we are coming down to the last stretch now.. Elections – Yes! Finally done, but …
October 2020 Newsblog
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!“Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.”https://stopwirefraud.org/protect-your-money/ Between last month and this one we got caught in a tsunami of major proportions. If …
Deeds – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Very often we come across Deeds – Grant Deeds or Quitclaim Deeds – that are poorly drawn, making us wince, a frown, or raised eyebrows. …