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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Organizations:
FBI, MLS, Service
Locations:
Arizona, Tucson, Fairfield , Connecticut, Miami, Petrescu, Pima County , Arizona