Wire Fraud and Real Estate Closings: How Homebuyers Can Protect Their Money

Wire Fraud and Real Estate Closings: How Homebuyers Can Protect Their Money Buying a home is an exciting milestone, but it also involves transferring large amounts of money—often electronically. Unfortunately, that makes real estate transactions an attractive target for scammers. Wire fraud can happen when criminals impersonate a real estate agent, attorney, lender, title company, …