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☆ How to avoid getting scammed out of your home or becoming a victim of land fraud
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Gordon isn't the only victim of this type of fraud — known as home-title fraud, land fraud, or seller-impersonation fraud — where scammers impersonate the rightful owner of a property by forging documents in order to sell it. Petrescu and Gordon share a few measures property owners can implement to help stop land fraud from happening to them. That may seem like an obvious one, but for a vacant piece of property, owners might forgo that extra security. He used the same title company to buy the land and to refinance it a year later. "Here we have the same title company that I used, and now the fraudster's using the same title company," Gordon said.

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☆ Property owners are increasingly having their land sold out from under them. 4 experts break down the failures allowing this, and how the crime can be prevented in the future.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Kenigsberg and the LLC building the house on the formerly vacant property said they're both victims of title fraud. Fraudulent sales like these are on the rise. "Any opportunity out there to buy a property at a good value or in a good area is going to get snapped up," Larson told Insider. "With a decrease in home sales, now they're looking for other ways to leverage real property into fraud," Rymarowicz told Insider. AdvertisementAdvertisement"We think we can uplevel RON (Remote Online Notarization) and do a higher level of online notarization," Kinsel told Insider.

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☆ An Arizona man planned to build his retirement home on a plot of land he bought 20 years ago. The problem: It was sold for $200,000 without him knowing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

"I noticed the last four digits of the social security number were not mine and the address was wrong — the mail shouldn't have even gotten to me," Gordon told Insider. Gordon, 65, bought the undeveloped, 3 1/3-acre property in 1999 for $76,500, Pima County property records show. AdvertisementAdvertisementGordon spoke with Title Security Agency, the Arizona company that handled Gordon's title work when he purchased the property in 1999. He told Insider that in this instance, the seller was found out to be fraudulent soon after the deal closed. He told Insider he spoke with a broker that had four fraudulent incidents in one day.

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Prince Harry’s expected testimony on Tuesday in a phone-hacking case will be the first time in over 130 years that a prominent member of Britain’s royal family is cross-examined in court. The last time it happened was in 1891, and it didn’t go well for the royal family. It was unusual then, too, for such a prominent member of the royal family — the future king, no less — to appear in court. Richard Fitzwilliams, a royal commentator, said: “You can see from reading this why it was subsequently decided that this is not something the royal family want. Furthermore, while Harry is a high-profile member of the royal family, he is no longer a working royal.

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☆ Queen Victoria’s Son Was the Last British Royal to Testify in Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prince Harry’s expected testimony on Tuesday in a phone-hacking case will be the first time in over 130 years that a prominent member of Britain’s royal family is cross-examined in court. The last time it happened was in 1891, and it didn’t go well for the royal family. Prince Albert Edward — Queen Victoria’s eldest son, who went on to become King Edward VII in 1901 — testified as a witness in a slander case that centered on a game of baccarat gone wrong at which the prince had been present. The prince sided with the accusers, and Mr. Gordon-Cumming lost the case. It was unusual then, too, for such a prominent member of the royal family — the future king, no less — to appear in court.

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