11/18/2025
⚠️Do Not believe anyone telling you the wiring instruction has changed in the email, text, or phone call⚠️
Buyer receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the title company.
The caller knew the exact closing date, the property address, the buyer’s name, and even the correct title company name.
They are very convincing while they give the buyer instructions to wire their down payment and closing costs.
The buyer wired all the money.
It was gone in minutes.
It was NOT the title company. It was a scammer who had been monitoring emails.
This is now one of the most common closing disasters in real estate. The FBI says wire-fraud losses in real estate transactions topped $4.4 billion last year, and recovery is almost impossible once the money leaves the U.S.
What every one of your buyers needs to hear from YOU right now:
Your title company/escrow officer will NEVER call or text you wiring instructions. And, if anyone ever tells you to change where you’re wiring money, it’s a scam 99.9% of the time.
Wiring instructions should ONLY come from a verifiable title company.
If you get a call, text, or email about a change → STOP. Call your agent immediately, then call the title company using the phone number you already have (not one the caller gives you).
Forward every suspicious email to the title company and your agent BEFORE you click or respond.
One phone call or one click can wipe out a buyer’s life savings and kill the transaction.
Copy & paste this, tag your agents, repost it — whatever it takes. Let’s stop even one more family from going through this nightmare.
