The Gill case involved real
estate fraud perpetrated against Mr. Gill, the registered owner of the property.
Not exact matches
In recent years, powers of attorney have been used in real
estate transactions to
perpetrate fraud.
In the past year or so, I have seen
frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real
estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer... [more]
In the past year or so, I have seen
frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real
estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer (pretending to be the client) on where to disburse funds; and a situation where a lawyer's email account was hacked and the hacker, pretending to be a lawyer, sent instructions to a client on where to send funds.
Be aware, also, that this particular scheme is only one of many forms of online
fraud being
perpetrated against real
estate licensees and their clients.