A fraudulent deed — a forged signature, perhaps, or a fabricated notarization or stolen identity — can be recorded within ...

Art Pfizenmayer with Home Title Lock says that home title theft and deed fraud are a growing epidemic in the United States. He stopped by Studio 512 to talk about how consumers can protect themselves.

Theft. When you hear about it, you might just think it happens in retail stores or with vehicles. In today’s world, you have to worry about people trying to steal your home through title theft. Art ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many scams are focused on collecting money or information through fake websites and suspicious emails, others involve a much ...

Homeowners need to be aware of house title theft, a type of fraud that threatens an individual’s ownership of their home. Property fraud in general is a costly problem. The FBI reports that in 2024, ...

Imagine the American dream crumbling around you. Each mortgage payment you made over the years, each bedroom and each bath, the backyard you nurtured into a blooming oasis – gone. Not to fire, flood, ...

HOUSTON – There’s a way for criminals to steal your home right out from underneath you without you even doing anything wrong. And the worst part is - you might not even know for months. It’s commonly ...

The ads are pretty frightening. They claim a crook could steal your home with nothing but a bit of paperwork. “You don’t check your home title every 24 hours. That’s all the time criminals need to ...

The Boston division of the FBI is sounding the alarm over a rise in home title theft, aka quit claim deed fraud, a scheme in which scammers forge documents to steal property ownership and cash in on ...

Watch John Solomon’s recent interview with John Summer, an Emmy and multi-award-winning news anchor and investigative ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa Title Guaranty (ITG) launched one of the nation’s first title theft products to shield homeowners from property fraud. Title theft, also called deed theft or seller ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Some television commercials make it seem people are constantly trying to steal homes by filing fraudulent deeds and then taking out mortgages in the real homeowner's name, and there ...