A man’s face appears partially digitized beside a stamped legal document and pen—symbolizing the intersection of technology, identity verification, and fraud prevention in real estate transactions.

How New Fraud and Notarization Laws Affect Real Estate Closings

A Practical Look at the Legal Environment Behind “Verify, Then Trust” By: Elyce Schweitzer, Alliant National Regulatory Compliance Officer Artificial intelligence has made fraud more convincing and more difficult to spot. As we explored in our earlier piece on deepfake-enabled fraud, today’s bad actors can impersonate real parties, voices, and documents with a level of sophistication that would have been …

Florida Agent Who Thwarted a Vacant Property Scam is Rewarded by Alliant National

As part of its mission to provide valuable help to title industry stakeholders, Alliant National has launched a program incentivizing agencies to report any suspected instances of fraud. Firms that do so are eligible to receive a $1,000 reward.  Since its inception, the program has proven to be a model for how underwriters and agencies can work together to prevent …

Inquire Before You Wire

Amy Gregory has a passion to protect, and when a customer at Paramount Title was defrauded of $130,000, Amy pulled out all the stops to track down the funds and then went above and beyond to ensure no customer of hers would ever fall victim to wire fraud again. Our story begins with an innocuous email delivered to our homebyer …

Title Industry’s Cyber, Escrow Fraud Preparedness Needs Improvement

A national survey of title agents conducted by the American Land Title Association shows that our industry has farther to go when it comes to formalizing cyber and escrow security plans. Results of the survey also hint that the threat landscape is becoming increasingly perilous for title agents, consumers and others involved in real estate transactions. Of the survey’s more …