By Lisa A. Tyler
National Escrow Administrator

Have you ever had a seller assign their proceeds to someone else? It happens more often than we would care to admit. Our Company has had a longstanding policy against honoring such requests. Read "PAYMENTS to entities" to find out why and how to articulate the Company policy to your customers.

Continue your reading with the story entitled "ASSET dumping" to find out what a title agent did to shut down a fraudulent loan. The lender in the deal actually took the time to pick up the phone and thank the hero in this story for preventing them from making a bad loan.

Protecting the Company and the public from document forgery is a high priority for all offices. To deter would–be forgers from attempting to present a fake identification card at closing, many of our offices keep a UV light in their signing room. Visible to all signers, the light not only detects fake drivers' licenses, but passports, consular cards and resident alien/green cards containing security UV features. In this edition of Fraud Insights we provide you with the most current features for cards issued by U.S. Government entities in the story entitled "UNLOCKING the secrets of the black box."