Mortgage scam reports have soared in recent years, opposite of the housing market’s slowdown. The industry as of April was reporting 71 mortgage scams per month, up from just 14 per month in 2022 at the tail-end of the refinance boom, according to BackOffice Pro, a business services organization. While real estate companies disclosed losses […]
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that claws back a number of fraud-related mandates by his predecessor, who the Trump White House claimed had engaged in “censorship” and enabling illegal immigration. The order, which was signed on Friday, preempts multiple efforts initiated by former President Joe Biden in the waning days of his
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Forged checks, false occupancy claims and scams on senior citizens are among the schemes lenders should be aware of as growing interest in home equity lending catches the attention of fraudsters. While home equity lines of credit have been available for decades, the rapid acceleration of mortgage rates over the past three years is raising
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Google has launched a joint effort with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or FS-ISAC, that will combine the search giant’s threat detection capabilities with FS-ISAC’s network and intelligence sharing to prevent fraud within the financial sector. The program, announced Wednesday, is dubbed the Financial Services branch of Google’s Priority Flagger Program, according
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