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May 16th, 2011
The following is a case of fraud taken from our Fraud Insights newsletter for May. Careless Whispers An escrow officer with Chicago Title’s Skokie, Ill. office, was conducting a signing without the buyer or seller in the room. To set the stage, the signing ceremony was being conducted with both the buyer and seller’s [...] May 16th, 2011 | Tags: Buying real estate, closing process, Fraud, Real estate agents, residential, Short Sale | Category: Brokers-Agents, Escrow, Fraud | Leave a comment |
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July 19th, 2010
We have an internal publication called “Fraud Insights”. This article appeared in the most recent issue and I thought I’d pass it along. Loan officers from two different states embezzled funds from their employers by redirecting the payments to themselves at closing. These actions caused mortgage brokerages to implement tighter controls. One of [...] July 19th, 2010 | Tags: closing process, Embezzlement, Fraud, Loan Officers | Category: Fraud | One comment |
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March 12th, 2010
As you know, our nation’s economy has been brought to its knees by an unprecedented number of high-level schemes that unraveled in quick succession. Bernie Madoff with his “Ponzi” scheme and last decade’s poster child for fraud, Enron Corp., may be extreme, but not unique examples of unchecked greed which left large numbers of investors [...] March 12th, 2010 | Tags: 1031 Exchange, Buying real estate, Investors | Category: Commercial, Fraud, News Desk | One comment |
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