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Protect your transaction from wire fraud.
Verify instructions by phone. Never trust an unexpected emailed change.
Cybersecurity & Wire Fraud
Verify instructions by phone. Never trust an unexpected emailed change.
Criminals can impersonate buyers, agents, lenders, or title companies and send convincing instructions that redirect closing funds. Wired funds may become unrecoverable within hours.
Our commitment to you
We will never email you changed wiring instructions. If an email appears to come from our office announcing new or updated instructions, treat it as fraudulent and call us immediately using the phone number published on this website.
Before sending funds
- Call using a number obtained independently from our website, business card, or a previous conversation.
- Verify every time, even if you have wired to us before.
- Confirm account details verbally, digit by digit, with someone you know at our office.
Warning signs
- Instructions that arrive or change at the last minute.
- Urgent language pressuring you to send immediately.
- A subtly altered email address or different reply-to address.
- A request for secrecy or instructions not to call.
If you think you have been defrauded, act within minutes.
- Call your bank immediately and request a wire or SWIFT recall.
- Call our office so we can help coordinate.
- Report the incident to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center at IC3.gov (opens in a new tab).
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